Bad code we all do it.
Well, I had written my share of bad code. Couple of weeks ago I had to fix up a class that was written about 4 years ago. For a while I could not believe I wrote this, but the comments on top clearly identified me as a suspect. The thing is we all write bad code sometimes. If you never wrote any bad code, please raise the hand with which you did not do it.
So, going back to the story – I was looking at it and my first impulse was to try to hide it far away so nobody would ever have to look at it. My second impulse was to rewrite it. I figured, it would probably take me about 5 hours to redo this. I did not do any of it. Instead I brewed a fresh pot of coffee, put my pride far away, printed out copies of it for all developers in the office and decided to play a game. Read more…
When it comes to development, IDE is an important part of the process. Some people still use some sort of a text editor to do all their coding, and I applaud them for it. I on the other hand am not a big proponent of typing out all your namespaces / commands / functions, nor am I capable of memorizing all the functions that are available in a language, so I use IDE. Since I am coding C# mostly, I am using Visual Studio. I have to admit – I love Visual Studio, especially with ReSharper (I don’t work for JetBrains, I just simply love this tool) added to the mix. I also have to say for the last 5 years I have not been using desktop to do my coding. I am addicted to laptops, and my boss have been kind enough to always providing me the newest and most powerful laptop budget can allow. This is why I love the idea of not using your mouse, after all, Visual Studio does come with a great deal of keyboard shortcuts, so why not use it? Read more…
Hi everyone! After helping couple of friends out with their newer enterprise – clubpath.com guys offered me a partnership. I am very excited about this one. For a while I wanted to get some kind of information-based site going ( my billiardinfoworld thing does not count – not too many people care about billiard ). E-commerce is not really my ideal business. I like making e-commerce sites, but running those on the day to day basis – I am not really cut out for that. It is very difficult to sell to the regular consumers, especially in the current economic environment, this is why I think information based sites, especially the ones that encourage users to generate their own content are the things to do, if you don’t really want to work on it full time.
Guys did do a great job on setting up the site, we do get a good traffic, the content is being generated and we do have returning users. What I think is especially great – we actually got two guys who are doing the sales / customer interactions and developers are doing none of that. When pressured into it, I can do sales, but to be honest it is not my idea of a great job.
Beta 1 for clubpath is somewhat successful, however we came up with the list of things that we would want to change. This means clubpath beta 2 will be very different.
So if you are into the club scene (for now only in Toronto, but coming soon to a major city near you) check out clubpath.com.