How to write unmaintenable code
And old link, that I lost, and that I found again yesterday. I love the opening quote: " Never ascribe to malice, that which can be explained by incompetence"
A funny read: how to write unmaintenable code
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November 26, 2005
November 23, 2005
[Cocoa] Memory management and exceptions
In languages like Java and actionscript, the "runtime" manages memory, using what is called a garbage collector, that reclaims the memory occupied by an object once it determines that object is no longer accessible. In Objective-C, the programmer must release the resources that he or she has previously allocated to be used by the program.
Memory management is not difficult by itself, because the developer must follow only a few rules, but it is the source of many memory leaks, specially when the program behaves in an unexpected way.
So, what happens when we need to throw exceptions?. How can we be sure that we are not producing memory leaks?. Chris Hanson writes about it in Cocoa memory management & exceptions
November 03, 2005
Tomorrow in the papers
design-nation is in the papers. In the October's issue of MacWorld Spain, there is an articles written by me, the First Contact with Macromedia Studio 8.
Even with that article, the magazine is full of interesting contents, like a report about the .Mac services, an in-depth article about iMovieHD or a comparison between all the Macs.
If you can read Spanish, you should buy it...
November 01, 2005
Design patterns poster
I am sure you have heard about the Head First series and about the Head First Design Patterns book, because it is probably the best introductory book to understand design patterns.
Last week I was browsing amazon when I found this item: Head First Design Patterns Poster.
As its name says, it is a poster (a big one, in fact) that contains a graph (taken from the original book), not an UML diagram but a graph that explains the pattern and also the page number of the pattern in both the Gang of four and Head First Design Patterns.
It visually summarizes 18 patterns, and it is attached to the wall in front of my computer right now...
(By the way, all the links in this post will NOT earn me a comission).