February 2009 Entries
How do you know how far you can take something until you’ve taken it too far… at least once? This little “proverb” (if I can call it that) has limited applicability, and could be grossly misapplied, but has some relevance to what I’m currently working on. At the moment I’m designing a software system with an emphasis on SRP, the Single Responsibility Principle. The proverb accepts the tendency to over-apply something just learned. In many cases this over-application is okay because you’ll never know how far you should take something until you find the upper limit. In this...
Warning: this post is a rambling whose content to noise ratio may be quite low. Follow along with me as I consider a simplistic view of a little piece of software. The point of this story is how many little pieces of information have to be collected, and how quickly the logical complexity grows, with even this simplistic example. After the story I’ll draw my little connection between programming and the human mind, and how we might (at a high level) close the gap a bit. I just got a docking station for my laptop. It’s the first...