Timeline for "Comments are a code smell"
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| Jan 31, 2011 at 9:04 | history | made wiki | Post Made Community Wiki | ||
| Dec 15, 2010 at 23:28 | comment | added | Tim Williscroft | Sure, remember: never use silly names. The customer will always see them. | |
| Dec 15, 2010 at 23:26 | comment | added | user1249 | @Tim, as customers may see this, a more neutral naming might be appropriate. | |
| Dec 15, 2010 at 22:42 | comment | added | Tim Williscroft | @Thorbjørn +1, If the code knows what's wrong darn well report it. The customers support tech's can probably reload their DB, and avoid a service call. | |
| Dec 15, 2010 at 22:32 | comment | added | user1249 | @Niphra, well, we could throw a SomebodyScrewedAroundWithDatabaseException... | |
| Nov 24, 2010 at 14:37 | comment | added | DistantEcho | +1 for nice comments. No amount of code can say "If this happens, somebody's been screwing around with the database definitions". | |
| Sep 1, 2010 at 20:04 | history | answered | BlairHippo | CC BY-SA 2.5 |