March 2010
2 posts
Simplicity *does* mean simple, readable methods
Following a link from @raganwald I came across an article where Mike Taylor was debating wether the concept of simplicity, as it pertains to the length and complexity of methods isn’t subjective. He read a decent chunk of Fowler’s Refactoring, found himself disagreeing with the tendency to composable, well named methods, in favor larger methods with the low-level implementation in the...
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The trouble with bash colored prompts munging your...
Basically, you just want to be very careful properly escaping and ending color sequences in your bash prompt. If you mess them up, when you try to use spiffy bash tricks that mess with your current line, such as control-r to search through your bash history and then left of right arrow to edit that line, you’ll get a partially overwritten line that is impossible to read or edit properly. ...