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Posts Tagged ‘rules of thumb

24 Mar, 2009

Clean code cheat sheet

Posted by: j pimmel In: agile

I happened upon the Clean Code Cheat Sheet and thought it worthwhile to share. It draws together a number of principles which help you achieve cleaner and more habitable code. It includes: The Get It Done Adagio Make it Work Make it Right Make it Fast The Three Rules of TDD SOLID Principles SRP OCP [...]

18 Nov, 2008

laws and rules of thumb

Posted by: j pimmel In: uncategorized

Nat Pryce posted a fun to read summary of software development laws including: Bram’s Law The easier a piece of software is to write, the worse it’s implemented in practice. (Bram Cohen) Gall’s Law A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked. The inverse proposition also [...]


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