software developers are like writers

Think, analyze, find a way to reach solution and create some code like writing a novel.

Cool stuff :)

dilemmas

Your dilemmas creates your personality, your decisions and your life.

Configuration settings

Getting a value from configuration does not make things changeable and easy configurable.

Team leaders, project managers all of lead of something please listen me

Wanna manage project from a one configuration file? This idea is bullshit :)

thin lizzy - whiskey in the jar

thin lizzy - whiskey in the jar

Feel good :)

Risky bugs

Interface changes, developments and updates comes with unseen risks. Example : Older versions has a text area for other descriptions of an advert. It can be unvisible with new versions and nobody can notice this.

Ineffective designs

• A complex solution to a simple problem
• A simple, incorrect solution to a complex problem
• An inappropriate, complex solution to a complex problem

How to reduce

• Minimize the amount of essential complexity that anyone's brain has to deal with at any one time.
• Keep accidental complexity from needlessly proliferating.

These references from Code Complete and CC is a very informational book.

My examples

A complex solution to a simple problem : Localization(Resource management in .net for web sites) jquery glob will solve this problem I think.

A simple, incorrect solution to a complex problem : All business decisions that created as fast solution :) Not enough analysis on current situations and not thinking what can occur next.

An inappropriate, complex solution to a complex problem : All ERP systems :) This designs makes projects hard to maintain and demoralized project staff.

What is yours?

When you validate

Please return why it didn’t validate by reference. Like this

public bool ValidateSearchParameters(AdvertSearchParameters advertSearchParameters, ref string errorString)
        {
 
            if (advertSearchParameters.IsTextSearch)
            {
                if (advertSearchParameters.TextKeywords.Length < 5) //TODO : will be provided by config
                {
                    errorString = "Must be more than 5 charachter.";
                    return false;
                }
            }

}

Life runs on code :)

Video

Visual Studio Achievements

http://blog.whiletrue.com/2011/01/what-if-visual-studio-had-achievements/

My achievements :)

Falling Down – Created a new SharePoint project

The Portal – Created a circular project dependency

The Multitasker – Have more than 50 source files open at the same time

Highway to Hell – Successfully created a WCF service

Rage Quit – ALT+F4 after a failed bug fix “Fine solution :)”

Warm Bath – Successfully consumed a non .NET SOAP web service

Old School – Defined more than 100 static objects

The Cloner – Copy-pasted more than 50 lines

I like that I wish VS gives us badges.

Slayer

Raining blood :)

Linq Spagetti

 //Property Options
            IDictionaryAdvertProperty, int> advertPropertyGroupList =
    (from r in resultPropertyOption
     where r.AdvertPropertyID != null && r.AdvertPropertyOptionID != null && r.OptionCount != 0
     group r by r.AdvertPropertyID into g
     select
        new
        {
            C = new EmlakMilliyet.Service.Model.AdvertSearch.AdvertProperty
            {
                Id = (int)g.Key.Value,
                Name = this.AdvertLookupDataService.GetAdvertProperty((int)g.Key.Value).Name,
                Options =
                    (from v in g
                     select
                        new
                        {
                            L = this.AdvertLookupDataService.GetAdvertPropertyOption((int)g.Key.Value, (int)v.AdvertPropertyOptionID) ?? new AdvertPropertyOption
                            {
                                Id = 0,
                                Name = "",
                                SearchOptionOrder = 0
                            },
                            TotalCount = g.Where(w => w.AdvertPropertyOptionID == v.AdvertPropertyOptionID).Sum(a => a.OptionCount.GetValueOrDefault())
                        })
                     .OrderBy(o => o.L.Name)
                     .ToDictionary(p => p.L, p => p.TotalCount)
            },
            TotalCount = g.Sum(a => a.OptionCount.GetValueOrDefault())
        }).OrderBy(o => o.C.Name).ToDictionary(p => p.C, p => p.TotalCount);

Public Shame

“The public shaming is far more effective than fear of being fired.”

http://framethink.wordpress.com/2011/01/17/how-facebook-ships-code/

A bug can cause bigger effects.

Visual studio collecting.

More information about problem :) But I did not anything.

Guns N' Roses - Don't Cry

Don’t cry