The first New England GiveCamp was this weekend at Microsoft’s Northeast Research and Development building in Cambridge, MA, and it was, by far, one of the most rewarding experiences I’ve had in the 15 years I have been professionally coding. About 100 technical and non-technical volunteers spent the weekend of June 11-13 writing code for [...]
Archive of posts tagged Elegance
How To (Not) Add Numbers In JavaScript, And How To Troll
And now, for some levity, courtesy of Andrew Clover at doxdesk.com: An obvious trolling of Stack Overflow (and one which they have removed), but a funny one, nonetheless. (Click for full-size pic) So full of win, from start to finish. Even the “Related” links are hilarious. FYI, bobince — the straight man in this joke [...]
Good Coding Practices Should Replace Comments In Code
I recently came across a post on elegantcode.com that really struck a nerve. The premise: If you write good code, comments should not only be unnecessary, they could actually be counterproductive. Says author John Sonmez: “As my experience has increased, I have realized more and more that comments are actually bad. They indicate a failure.” [...]
A Strong Password Generator Written In PHP
There are a number of handy tools every PHP programmer needs in his toolbox, and among them is a strong password generator. This is especially true if you are programming membership-based Web sites, and you either want to generate initially strong passwords to hand out to end users, or you don’t want to give your [...]
It’s Time For Facebook – Or, At Least, Someone – To Vet Third-Party Applications
It’s no mystery to anyone who’s been on Facebook for more than a week that one of its biggest boons — and, in the finest Zen tradition, one of its most nagging banes — is the plethora of third-party applications that leverage its data. Virtually all the value in Facebook is crowdsourced — that is, [...]
