GitHub Not too long ago, I signed up for GitHub. I had always used subversion for source control when given the choice, but the distributed nature of Git appealed to me, particularly since I often do work on a variety of different machines. GitHub itself appealed to me because it seemed like the perfect venue…
DaedTech is now on… Twitter @daedtech I’ve never really had much interest in Twitter as a personal tool, but in the context of keeping and maintaining a blog, it seems to make sense. So, I’ll use it in conjunction with this blog as a “micro-blog” tool, as well as a vehicle for announcing site posts….
Don’t Generate Compiler Warnings I was doing some work this morning when I received a general email to a group of developers for a large project that sort of pleaded with and sort of demanded that members of the group not check in code that generated compiler warnings. And, I agree with that. Although, with…
Name Smells Revisited A long time ago, I blogged about a concept I dubbed “name smells”. Among other things that I described making me wary of a piece of code just by its name were the words “Helper” and “Manager” in a class name. My issue with this was and is that this tends to…
Recognizing and Understanding My Irritability I’ve been dabbling off and on in Android development lately. For a long time, I used Eclipse on a regular basis and got to know the ins and outs of it quite well, but as a look at my tag cluster will tell you, Visual Studio has been my main…
