Hi, this is the 12th part of a series of posts on 30 tips to becoming a better developer. If you would like to keep up to date with the topics that I am covering, just check the main post. Coding is a fun activity. But in the middle of creating interesting algorithms and user…
XML is a generic format for data storage that has been widely used by the industry. That could be all that there is to XML, if were not for the importance of data in programming. One of the things you learn when using Lisp is that data can also be viewed as code — we just…
The idea of code reuse has been a gospel for many years among advocates of modular technologies: first structured programming, then object oriented as well as other types of programming methodologies. While it is a good thing that we are able to separate concerns and make our code more modular, there is also a downside…