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I finally discovered the truth about why developers rather rewrite a 1MLOC project from scratch than trying to understand a fellow programmer’s code:
We’re all code narcissists!
And the reason for that can easily deducted in a tiny logical chain:
(The best code is easy to understand) ^ (I can understand my own code the easiest, duh!)
=> (My [...]
A week ago I held my first talk since university. It was the first talk in my life I held in English, and I was scared like hell. It felt like living through those exam days back at school all over again – just that this time I thought I’m old enough to realize that [...]
Posted in Software on Jun 10th, 2007 13 Comments »
A month ago I bought a TREKSTOR NDAS device. This devices promises on it’s package to be linux compatible. So after I unpacked the hardware and everything was running in Windows I tried to install it in linux. Unfortunately the stock feisty debian package I found didn’t work with my WLAN configuration.
Now after I reinstalled [...]
Posted in Software on Jun 8th, 2007 12 Comments »
My Vista Home Premium finally arrived. Since I have a Ati 9250 at work, which is a smartly rebranded DirectX 8 card, I was craving for the full “vista experience”. After doing some backup I installed Vista on my laptop and spent some time setting up the basic programs I need. Since installing colinux is [...]
Posted in Personal, Software on Apr 9th, 2007 6 Comments »
In case you didn’t notice: I’ve been away from my keyboard for two weeks. My wife and me had a beautiful vacation in Jamaica where I learned that reading and writing English doesn’t help a lot to understand people actually talking. Ya Man!
Posted in Software on Mar 11th, 2007 7 Comments »
Today was a beautiful sunny day. The warm sunbeams on my skin told a story of the oncoming spring. And while my body started up it’s Vitamin B3 production line, I remembered a conversation I had yesterday with Bernhard, a rocket engineer, that evolved around two statements:
“With hardware, theoretically anything is possible.” – This statement [...]
Posted in Software on Mar 4th, 2007 1 Comment »
Morbus Maximus Hypercodus, also known as BPCD (Best Possible Coder Disease) is an uncommon illness these days. It mostly affects integral parts of the brain and while some people believe it to be a genetic dysfunction, others claim that BPCD has purely psychological causes. People who suffer from BPCD are usually not aware of it [...]
Posted in Software on Feb 26th, 2007 7 Comments »
Today somebody posted a very interesting comment on my recent article about my experience with XP. He (or she) linked to an article called Extreme Deprogramming. The comment’s author said it was “The most insightful take on XP”, in his opinion. Well, the article is very entertaining indeed, so first of all I recommend that [...]
Posted in Software on Feb 25th, 2007 3 Comments »
The first time I heard about ruby was at University about eight years ago when most of ruby’s documentation was Japanese. Back than it was hard to find a good introduction to ruby and since I favor curly bracket languages for aesthetic reasons I decided to stick with perl.
Last week I gave ruby a new [...]
Posted in Software on Feb 19th, 2007 6 Comments »
The first time I heard of Extreme Programming was during my University days. We didn’t really learn anything more sophisticated than the Waterfall model, so I was totally unprepared. Since I had no practical experience in programming teams with more than two persons, I didn’t understand the problems of the Waterfall model or even of [...]
