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The primary purpose of the DATA statement is to give names to constants; instead of referring to pi as 3.141592653589793 at every appearance, the variable PI can be given that value with a DATA …

At my first real job I was hired by a couple of OCDers who wanted me to always write code like this: /* comment describing what the next few lines do */ a line of code a line of code a line of code …

Fixing syntax errors represents only a tiny fraction of the total amount of time that we programmers spend while doing our job. I mean, it is so tiny that it gets lost in the noise. The compiler point …

This rethrow(e); function violates the principle which says that under normal circumstances, a function will return, while under exceptional circumstances, a function will throw an exception. This fu …

My one surefire way is: Not being afraid to refactor the plan at the first hint that the code is turning complex. (Which, of course, does not negate at all what you have already mentioned abo …

Some hardware cannot read non-aligned data. True. For example Bitmap images are aligned to 4-bytes from the header and with each scan line in order to maintain device independence. I h …

The modern line of thinking, which is considered as best practice by most publications and in most workplaces out there, is to never return result codes, and instead to always throw an exception if yo …

Regarding singletons None of the classes pictured here should be a singleton. The only class which should be a singleton is the main application class, which instantiates the two major classes that …

Put each "extension" in a separate bash script. Come up with a special naming convention for them, like "x.*". When your main script starts, have it first of all scan the directory for "x.*" and b …

I do not think it would have a positive impact. We tend to group class members according to their purpose and function, and this is something that cannot be communicated by means of any simple criteri …

They are trying to establish a correspondence between the terminology related to interlocked operations and the terminology related to acquiring/releasing a guarded resource, which is not an unreasona …

In the examples you provided there is most probably no difference, since all the necessary conversions will most probably be performed at compile time. The following will incur a slight performance p …

One reason is that the data packaged within applications are larger because they are of higher resolution and quality. An icon back in the days of Netscape was at most 32x32 pixels, with at most 8 bit …

I am very fond of hard error & fail fast, I believe they are the one true and right way to go, but I try not to be dogmatic about them. There are cases where the best thing to do with an unexpected e …

What Ixrec said. I would like to add that I would call it a site map, because that's what a sitemap basically is. The site map may have a public part, which you might want to include in an actual …