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From Pigment to Pixels: What Art History Can Teach Us about Software Design

This post compares and contrasts software design for hire with art done for patrons.

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Builder Syntax: A Timeless Way of Building

What is Builder Syntax and how do recent implementations compare to those of Groovy and Ruby?

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Code Parsimony and the Perils of Over Abstraction

... the more I think that simplicity is one of the most critical aspects of quality software. All things being equal, simplicity outweighs abstraction.

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How to Write a Compiler in an Afternoon

How to write compiler for toy language with JIT and native code generation in haskell using the Parsec library for parsing and LLVM for code generation.

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In Defense of MISRA – Multiple Return Statements

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Diff, not That

Do you know about the --ignore-matching-lines option to GNU diff? I recently found a great use for it on a recent project here at Atomic.

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Testing Ensemble Productions

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Testing and Legacy Code, A Primer

As much as we all might like to throw out legacy code, and “do it right,” that’s often an entirely impractical option or just a plain dumb thing to do.

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Test Automation in InterSystems Cache and Ensemble

The extensibility and flexibility of the technology provided by InterSystems enabled us to do test automation, continuous integration, unit testing of DTLs, and integration tests.

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