How to mix different styles of programming on several languages?
I know that Senior Developer doesn’t use only one language and only one platform or IDE.
GUI advice for a responsive touchscreen
I am tasked with building a piece of software that interfaces with a MySQL database, in order to allow the user to pick songs to play and que using a touch screen, and then they are shown simultaneously on a second monitor as videos.
Are fluent interfaces more flexible than attributes and why?
In a EF 4.1 Code First tutorial the following code is given:
What’s wrong with relative imports in Python?
I recently upgraded versions of pylint, a popular Python style-checker.
Discussions of simplicity
Recently at my company we’ve had a bit of a debate about abstraction vs. simplicity. One school of thought I’d characterize as “DRY and abstraction can do no harm,” and leads to code like this:
Order of subject and modifiers in variable names
I’m looking for experiences regarding the ordering of the subject and modifiers in variable names.
If condition not true: default value or else clause? [closed]
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Should I put newlines before or after binary operators? [closed]
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What statements and approaches should I avoid when learning functional programming?
I have 6 years of programming experience, mostly following the object oriented paradigm, and I’m interested in learning functional programming. My main goal is to become a functional paradigm programmer and not a programmer who is using a functional language but still writes in imperative style.
Should I prefer properties with or without private fields?
The codebase I’m working in now has the convention of using private fields and public properties. For example, most classes have their members defined like this: