Found a good quote from Martin Fowler, in his book Refactoring – Improving the Design of Existing Code: “By eliminating the duplicates, you ensure that the code says everything once and only once, which is the essence of good design.”
Monthly archives: February 2014
My First Refactor
Over the last Christmas I was thinking about investing so I developed a small tool which I was using to analyse stock market data. I was interested in checking what the rate of return on various stocks actually was if you use the Dollar Cost Averaging method of investment. I retrieved the data from Google […]
Clean Code
Why is Clean Code important? Code which is not well written is hard to read and understand. It’s a mess. Working with a mess is hard and prevents programmers from making changes easily. If not tidied up it will eventually deteriorate into unsupportable goop and you can’t sell goop. This is why Clean Code is […]
Startups – from an Investor’s Point of View
The lads and I went to the third floor of McSwiggans pub to the second Startup Galway event which consisted of the founder of boards.ie John Breslin interviewing Dermot Berkery in a fireside chat style of interview. Dermot is a partner at Delta investments which focuses on startups with potential for lots of growth and […]