Frans Bouma's blog

From the comments in 'Portraint of a n00b' by Yegge:

I program in English. After reviewing the English, I comment in Java after each sentence to let the computer know how to do it. In essence, I program in dual languages. IMHO the approach is what's important.

(Updated Wednesday 30-jan-2008). It was mentioned that we would implement 'Skip' as well, although we already had a paging method added, TakePage(). After carefull analysis, we decided not to implement Skip for now. The reason is that it can lead to confusing queries, while paging is what the developer wants. We believe TakePage() serves the developer better than a combination of Skip / Take (Take is still supported separately) which won't work in a lot of cases if Skip is specified alone.

First of all: welcome. Now, as you all might know, this blog site, http://weblogs.asp.net, has a grouped RSS feed (a couple actually), which is called the 'main feed'. If you place your post in a category which is in the default list of this site, your post will automatically end up on the main feed. This is a nice feature, but as it is used now it kills the site.

(This is part of an on-going series of articles, started here)

DISCLAIMER: this is a bitter post. If you get offended by this post, I'm sorry, though I had to write this. If you want to leave a comment, please do so, but as it's my blog, I'll remove comments which I think are inappropriate

I wish everyone a wonderful 2008!

In Steve Yegge's latest blog post, he argues that the size of a code base is the code's worst enemy. Today, Jeff Atwood wrote a follow-up with the same sentiments. Now, both bloggers are great writers and have almost always insightful articles. However, this time they both disappointed me a bit: both can't really give a set of reasons why a big code base is particularly bad, and more importanty: what is too big ?

(This is part of an on-going series of articles, started here)