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Programming Standards are NOT pointless

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Xnuiem
– September 19, 2010Posted in: programming, thoughts

It seems some people took my other article a bit too seriously.  While I was very serious and feel strongly about my convictions when it comes to HTML “validation”, the same cannot be said of programming standards.

For those of you that have never programming professionally, this stuff may be very new to you.  However, trust me, it is extremely important.  Programming standards are not stupid, are not corners to be cut, and must be strict, otherwise they ARE pointless.

There are standards when it comes to documenting your code, and I wont get into them.  But if you are interested there are programs out there which more or less set the standard if you want to use them.  JavaDoc, PHPDoc, and for those MS folks….. .  Go check out their websites for good advice on how to format your comments in your code.

Now, for actually coding, I have my own set of standards, developed over the years, to make the code both readable, but also hopefully logical.  Most people I run into think my code is pretty readable, some languages more than others.  Let’s face it, Perl code will never, ever, be as readable or “pretty” as Python.  It just isn’t going to happen.  Sorry you old UNIX guys, but Perl just isn’t very pretty.  The OO languages are much easier on the eyes.

So, other than for documentation reasons, readability (which leads to maintainability), are there actually other reasons to program to a standard?  Only if you want to use your code in some sort of portfolio.  But those first two reasons are EXTREMELY important.  Everyone out there that has programmed professionally will know exactly what I mean.

Tabs or spaces?  Braces at the end of a line or on their own line?  Spaces between concatenation or operators?  Double quotes or single quotes?  Print to buffer or hold in variables?  Globals or object variables?  Arguments or variables?

There are a ton of questions, and I cant answer them all.  But think about why you do something, and if you cant come up with a good reason, probably time to stop doing it.

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Christian Science just rubs me wrong

By
Xnuiem
– July 31, 2010Posted in: ramblings, thoughts

Ok, starting this off, I probably have to preface my rant.  I am not saying Christian Science is full of crap, just that they have an aspect that just really annoys and pisses me off.  I am not saying I have all the answers or advocating one religion over another or downing any of them, except perhaps Islam since it is just retarded you cant draw a picture of Muhammad.

For those of you that do not know, my wife is Christian Science, and I of course love her.  I am really ok with CS, but this one thing just irks me.

At the beginning of each CS service, they set up what CS is, which is a good thing since it is a less traditional take on the Protestant movement.  Part of that little spiel is they explain that there is no pastor, just the Bible and their “textbook”: Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures. That book was written back in the late 19th century by Mary Baker Eddy, the founder of CS.  They then explain that the reason for not having a pastor is “un-divorced from truth, uncontaminated and unfettered by human hypotheses and divinely authorized”.  Um…so you don’t want a pastor, because you don’t want your message contaminated by humans, and yet you read from a book that a human wrote that is admittedly not the Bible?  WTF?  Really?  Do you even bother to listen to yourself?

Just to reiterate, pastors are bad because they speak what they think with the Bible as a guide, fettering the message if you will, so instead we read only from two books, one of which a mortal non-divine woman wrote about 120 years ago.  If you have never read the CS book, you should.  It is basically her responses to the scriptures.  For example…

Bible
Blessed are the meek: for they shall inherit the earth. – Matthew 5:5

CS Textbook
Whatever text the “Mother Church” in Boston decides will be the response.  A few weeks ago it something to do with authority which didn’t make any sense to me, since it just didn’t seem relevant.

So yes, they do “fetter” the Bible, and God’s word, which I am honestly OK with since I go to church.  Let’s just not start off every single sermon message thing with a hypocritical statement.  There is enough of that to go around in organized religion as it is.

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Don’t Hate Him Girl .com

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Xnuiem
– August 15, 2007Posted in: 300 million morons, links, thoughts

For those of you that haven’t been to the site Dont Hate Him Girl , you should really go. But only listen to the advice if you are a’ clueless, b’ in such dire need of self-esteem you think it is ok to perform in a scat video, or c’ just divorced for the second time and already oogling the pool boy.

Case in point, here is the quote from the bottom of the front page today:

“Some pray to marry the man they love, my prayer will somewhat vary: I humbly pray to Heaven above that I love the man I marry.
~ by Rose Stokes ~”

Of course, some of us know how this should really read:

“Some pray to marry the man they love, my prayer will somewhat vary: I humbly pray I never say “I do” to anyone other than the one I love, otherwise I pray that I am sterile so as not to add to the already overpopulated planet of at least 300 million morons”.

I lost count on the moron scale on this one. Lets just say we are at 295M and counting…

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Our Deepest Fear

By
jessica
– June 1, 2007Posted in: thoughts

“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, and fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small doesn’t serve the world. There’s nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won’t feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We are born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It’s not just in some of us, it’s in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.”

-Nelson Mandela

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Prego

By
jessica
– February 15, 2007Posted in: pregnancy, thoughts

Kids are like dogs… just less hair. – Ryan

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Quality Quotes

By
jessica
– September 16, 2004Posted in: thoughts

\”Quality is never an accident. It is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, intelligent direction, and skillful execution. It represents the wise choice of many alternatives.\”
-Willa A. Foster

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not act but a habit.\”
-Aristotle

\”Of all our human resources, the most precious is the desire to improve.\”
-Anonymous

No quality assurance program, whether it be voluntary or imposed can correct frequent mistakes and unreliable performance introduced by insufficient training, inadequate laboratory environment, and poor administrative practices.
– William Horwitz

One trouble with Americans is that we\’re fixers rather than preventers.\”
- James Harold Doolittle

There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.\”
- Peter F. Drucker

If you\’re doing something the same way you have been doing it for ten years, the chances are you are doing it wrong.\”
- Charles F. Kettering

Never confuse motion with action\”
- Ernest Hemingway

\”Do not tell me how hard you work. Tell me how much you get done.\”
- James J. Ling

There can be no economy where there is no efficiency.\”
- Benjamin Disraeli

You seldom improve quality by cutting costs, but you can often cut costs by improving quality.\”
- Karl Albrecht

\”…every successful quality revolution has included the participation of upper management. We know of no exceptions.\”
- Joseph Juran

C. W. Barron: Quality Quotes
Everything can be improved.
Martin Van Buren: Quality Quotes
It is easier to do a job right than to explain why you didn\’t.

Even if you\’re on the right track, you\’ll get run over if you just sit there.\”
-Will Rogers

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Word of the Day

By
jessica
– August 6, 2004Posted in: airlines, links, ramblings, wine

Hebetude
\\HEB-uh-tood-; -tyood\\
noun
Mental dullness or sluggishness.

While too many Americans slouch toward a terminal funk of hebetude and sloth, Bendians race ahead with toned muscles, wide eyes and brains perpetually wired on adrenaline.
–\”Wild rides in the heart of central Oregon: Bent out of shape in Bend,\” Washington Times, August 11, 2001

Earlier on, when we merely democratized fame, we defended the right of any mouth-breather to rise from deserved obscurity on the strength of his God-given hebetude.
–Florence King, \”The misanthrope\’s corner,\” National Review, May 18, 1998

From that solitude, full of despair and terror, he was torn out brutally, with kicks and blows, passive, sunk in hebetude.
–Joseph Conrad, Nostromo

Courtesy of Dictionary.com

This word came up during a computer training class at work I endured today. It wasn\’t too horrible, but I must say I was quite concerned when the class started out with, \”This is your desktop. These pictures are icons. This is the start menu. This is how you turn off your computer.\” I\’m sorry but if you don\’t already know these things, you don\’t need to be working here.

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Something to think about.

By
jessica
– December 19, 2002Posted in: thoughts

\”Love is what\’s in the room with you at Christmas if you stop opening presents and listen.\” Bobby – age 5

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Quotes…

By
Xnuiem
– November 8, 2002Posted in: thoughts

Ok, there are some really odd famous quotes out there….such as

\”Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I\’m not sure about the former.\”
- Albert Einstein ’1879-1955′

\”The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should, therefore, be regarded as a criminal offense.\”
- Edsgar Dijkstra

\”C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot; C++ makes it harder, but when you do, it blows away your whole leg.\”
- Bjarne Stroustrup

\”A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.\”
- Paul Erdos

\”Maybe this world is another planet\’s Hell.\”
- Aldous Huxley ’1894-1963′

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