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Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code (My Notes and Highlights)

  • Web site excerpt: I recently re-read Martin Fowler's excellent book on refactoring. It's about improving the design and quality of your code in small steps, without changing external behavior. The book contains detailed descriptions of refactorings, with motivation, mechanics, and an example for each. A must-read.

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Lessons From Debugging

  • Web site excerpt: By June 1949, people had begun to realize that it was not so easy to get a program right as had at one time appeared. It was on one of my journeys between the EDSAC room and the punching equipment that the realization came over me with full force that a good part of the remainder of my life was going to be spent in finding errors in my own programs. — Maurice Wilkes, creator of the first stored-program computer, EDSAC Debugging is programming, and programming is often mostly debugging. One of t

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Wedding Watches: The 10 Best Brands According to Our Instagram Fans

  • Web site excerpt: Weddings are an occasion for gift giving, and a fine watch always makes an ideal gift, whether it’s from a parent to a prospective son- or daughter-in-law, a groom to a best man, or exchanged between the betrothed couple in addition to (or in place of) the traditional rings. What are the best wedding watches? We put th

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