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Psssst. The OP of this article who criticizes Jeff is Jacob Kaplan-Moss. ie: A male.

There are certain languages and situations where the pattern does make sense. But as a heavy C# coder, I find that more often than not you're dealing with a class heavy codebase wh…

I can understand the reason for it being there, but I also tend to fall towards following the Law of Demeter. I tend to find that most (not all) of the use cases of this are a symp…

The question I have about this: Does making it easy to do parent?.child?.grandchild?.property help or hinder the software development process in the long term?

Okay, but the guy says he bought it in Jan of 2013 and waited over a year to try and activate the offer. Many of these offers are time bombs and sometimes for good reason. I'm not …

I will start by saying that the sentiment of this is simple and true. The value added by the "Unlock All" button in it's simplicity is valid. But they didn't "just add a button" th…

I can agree to a point. But my question is, what if the app doesn't, and isn't ever meant to, support a large number of users? What if even with the concurrency issues, it's fast e…

I like the idea, but it crashes Opera.

I have to agree. Two things have happened here to make me see it: - Taking on a role with more responsibility, leadership requirements and business knowledge - Starting my own busi…

He's basically a step away from having several objects (let's call them handlers) which can do your handling for you. Further, they can define the set of circumstances in which the…

Children's minds are built to soak in information. You could wait until a kid was 10 to introduce them to computers and they would still blow your mind with what they could figure …

I spent nearly a year building a SaaS application for Oil and Gas companies here in Calgary. My partner had the idea after he got tired of phoning/emailing/talking to every contact…

true, but they kind of go hand in hand. The nice part about named params is that it can make your code more clear if you have a lot of parameters on a method... but you could do th…

My point is: If your class/code/file is so big that you need to hide code to be able to easily navigate (or worse, understand) it, you're doing something wrong. I understand this i…

Yup. There's so many of these that are either irresponsible (Hiding code) or of limited usefulness (IsNullOrEmpty) or too limited to be truly useful (Named Parameters). Hiding Code…

First off, I love the idea. Secondly, I can't sign up for the weekly email. It says: Cannot POST /new

I've used it since v5. I love it, but seem to think about switching every once in a while, but no one seems to have mouse gestures which can match Opera's. Also, I love the speed d…

They don't. I've been watching intently as a .net dev for the last few years and MS doesn't play a leadership game of any sort. They aim for the lowest common demoninator and their…

Many will notice if a shortened url goes to another shortener and give a 'security notice'.

That's part of it. But the author should articulate it. There is also certain (specific) situations where the original code (e.NewItem as Customer).Save() would fail but ((Customer…

Yes, null refs are bad. But so is an InvalidCastException -- Which is what your new code could throw.

I really like it. Especially that with each suggestion it tells you whether or not it is available. The hardest thing I had with the site was when there were a lot of suggestions I…