Elegant Programming

Project Euler

scott — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 16:30:16 +0000

I’ve been quiet lately. That’s because I have a new addiction, an addiction to number problems and elegant programming solutions to them. Behold Project Euler. A suite of nearly 200 numeric problems suitable for solving via programs. So far I’ve solved 19 of them, and I’ll probably keep banging away at them in every spare [...]

The Observer design pattern in .NET, part 2

scott — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 01:31:37 +0000

This is part 2 in a series about the Observer design pattern in .NET. In part one, we saw how to implement the pattern using the “classical” approach. In this part, we’ll see how to implement the Observer design pattern “the .NET way” using events. The use of .NET events allows us to reduce the [...]

Miscellaneous links

scott — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 17:00:35 +0000

Zybermark wrote a chock-full-of-links post on the topic of code aesthetics, titled “Does universal beautiful code exist?” Check your geek quotient by taking The Nerd Test. I am technology geek, who would have guessed. Check your C# elegance with a source-code analysis tool similar to FxCop: MS StyleCop.

Elegant Javascript

scott — Sat, 31 May 2008 17:02:01 +0000

Here’s a new book on writing elegant JavaScript:

Google Web Toolkit

scott — Sat, 31 May 2008 16:05:46 +0000

Take a look at the Google Web Toolkit Product Overview. It’s a cool new open-source development kit that allows you to more easily create cross-browser AJAX applications. You develop in Java, so that you can debug and test using your favorite tools like Eclipse and Junit, and when ready, it generates HTML and highly-optimized JavaScript [...]

What makes a programming language successful

scott — Sat, 31 May 2008 00:33:31 +0000

I normally avoid Slashdot, having overdosed on it around 2001/2002. But today there’s an article titled “What makes a programming language successful” that is truly a great read (using my normal setting of threshold=4 or 5). My favorite quote? “Comparing [Perl] to Basic is like comparing a pineapple to a raisin.” As an added bonus, [...]

The Observer design pattern in .NET, part 1

scott — Tue, 27 May 2008 00:01:27 +0000

Today we’ll implement the “classic” Observer design pattern in VB .NET. This is part 1 of a 3 part series; part 2 will discuss transitioning the design pattern to .NET events, and part 3 will discuss some uses of the Observer pattern built into .NET. You can download the Observer design pattern example if you [...]

Elegant programming link roundup

scott — Sun, 25 May 2008 21:12:03 +0000

Here are some links to articles that refer to elegant programming in some way… PHP is NOT elegant? The Realm of Zod argues that it doesn’t matter, it’s the community that counts. Adrian Sutton argues that it’s not the elegance that matters, it’s the results. C Style: Standards and Guidelines has a chapter on elegant programming. Claire is [...]

Object-oriented design principles

scott — Sat, 24 May 2008 04:44:14 +0000

This article has been moved to http://elegant-programming.com/object-oriented-design-principles/

35 text editors reviewed

scott — Wed, 21 May 2008 17:54:25 +0000

Thirty-five text editors are reviewed at http://poshpixels.net/. They include a mix of opensource, free, shareware, and commercial editors. There are some really powerful editors out there that are free, for example: Aptana Studio Komodo Edit Eclipse HTML-Kit Notepad++ jEdit What’s your favorite text/programming editor?