Annotated Reading
(1) Hardware is Cheap, Programmers are Expensive by Jeff Atwood
- A feedback cycle on when to optimize and when to buy better hardware to improve the performance of your application
(2) Roslyn Code Gems – Counting Bits by K. Scott Allen
- A story of when expensive processors ask for unreadable code
(3) An empirical study of goto in C code by Meiyappan Nagappan, Romain Robbes, Yasutaka Kamei, Éric Tanter, Shane McIntosh, Audris Mockus, Ahmed E. Hassan
- Why goto is not harmful anymore? What is the interplay of best practices and language enforcement? The cultural impact on program writing.
(4) Code Smell by Martin Fowler and Code Smells by Jeff Atwood
- To maintain the conceptual integrity of the code base
(5) Replace Throwing Exceptions with Notification in Validations by Martin Fowler
- How to refactor an exceptions strategy for error handling from exceptions to a notifications strategy.