Monday’s Moment of Programming Enlightenment – Part 4

Some people, when confronted with a problem, think “I know, I’ll use regular expressions.” Now they have two problems. -Jamie Zawinski, in comp.lang.emacs

This statement is an all-purpose adage that can be attributed to nearly any problem where the solution might end up just creating a new problem.
As a software engineer, developer, or programmer, everyone needs [...]

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Monday’s Moment of Programming Enlightenment – Part 3

A manager went to the master programmer and showed him the requirements document for a new application. The manager asked the master: “How long will it take to design this system if I assign five programmers to it?”
“It will take one year,” said the master promptly.
“But we need this system immediately or even [...]

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Monday’s Moment of Programming Enlightenment – Part 2

This week’s koan comes from Scott Hanselman, the Microsoft ASP.NET guru.
People think it is hard to see .NET,but in reality it is neither difficult nor easy.It is a matter of responding to C# and VB.NET while remaining detachedfrom the runtime,living in the midst of managed code yet being detached from managed code, seeing without seeing, [...]

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Monday’s Moment of Programming Enlightenment – Part 1

Each Monday, I’m going to try to post a programming related enlightenment. It may be from a book such as the Tao/Zen of Programming or a quote.
The Tao gave birth to machine language. Machine language gave birth to the assembler.
The assembler gave birth to the compiler. Now there are ten thousand languages.
Each language has its [...]

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