Reflective Surface » Use dynamic languages

The argument that using tests is a ideologic waster of time fails when one considers how it can help to insure architectural decisions.

Inheritance is built into Chinese. You might as well use it.

UML is applying an abstraction at the wrong end of the problem. It is primarily used to sketch object models for inferior languages.

Most developers I know use AML: Arbitrary Markup Language, usually consisting of boxes, circles, and lines. When a given developer writes on a whiteboard, they write in their own version of a diagramming language.

Rule engines are commonly used in enterprise-level companies to decide things like how much your car insurance premium will be. Let’s start using this for something more fun!

The reasoning goes that if we create languages that keep people out trouble by restricting what damage they can do, we can produce software without having to pay those annoying software craftsman ridiculous amounts of money

Are there major differences between projects in different languages? Is it possible to quantify these differences? I decided to try to gather some hard numbers.

While injecting the dependency appeared to make the classes more tightly coupled, it simply revealed the coupling that already existed. A was already tightly coupled to B and B to C. When we tried to inject the dependency, we made that coupling mo...

We didn’t want to leave front-end developers in the dark when their Javascript throws errors, so we’ve added a Hoptoad notifier for Javascript!

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