I recently had after work drinkies with a few good friends. Many of the conversations seemed to finish with “I’ll send you a URL”. Here are some the batch I emailed on afterwards:
The other good thing to come of that night… Keith and David each took solemn oaths to begin a blog.
Cedric reminded me of Roedy Green’s ”How to Write Unmaintainable Code”. Roedy writes:
In the interests of creating employment opportunities in the Java programming field, I am passing on these tips from the masters on how to write code that is so difficult to maintain, that the people who come after you will take years to make even the simplest changes. Further, if you follow all these rules religiously, you will even guarantee yourself a lifetime of employment, since no one but you has a hope in hell of maintaining the code. Then again, if you followed all these rules religiously, even you wouldn’t be able to maintain the code!
From a comment Cedric left on one of my little rants.