January 2007 Entries

Developing software often requires an individual to wear various different caps, the Project Manager, the Technical Writer, the Developer and the Tester. We look at these different roles and the concept of buttons and boxes for easy development used during the Bytes AMS project development.

"Commenting is a royal pain in the posterior" - "Comments are for weenies" - "I can understand my code quite well, thank you very much" - "Good code speaks for itself" - "No time for that, got to get that code out of the door". None of these is a good reason for not commenting source code properly. We will look at these arguments, discuss them and take a look at good commenting practice and its benefits.