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What does Larry's style look like?

Sorry this took so long - work's been really busy lately. Clearly I'm not enough of an egotist[1] to believe that my style is in any way the "one true style", but over the course of writing the series on style, I realized that I've never written down Read More...
Posted Tuesday, November 30, 2004 11:15 AM by LarryOsterman | 28 Comments

I need to apologize

Sorry about leaving things hanging, I'm currently on vacation, that's why the 'blog's not been updated. I'll be back on Monday the 29th and continue where things left off. Read More...
Posted Monday, November 22, 2004 11:23 PM by LarryOsterman | 13 Comments
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What does style look like, part 8 (the end)

So over the course of the past week, I've spent some time talking about various things that make up a program's "style". There's one final aspect of programming style that I want to touch upon, and that's " Literate Programming ". Literate programming Read More...
Posted Thursday, November 18, 2004 1:14 PM by LarryOsterman | 18 Comments

What does style look like, part 7

Over the course of this series on style, I've touched on a lot of different aspects, today I want to discuss aspects C and C++ style specifically. One of the things about computer languages in general is that there are often a huge number of options available Read More...
Posted Wednesday, November 17, 2004 11:16 AM by LarryOsterman | 33 Comments

What comes after Quaternary?

Valorie asked me this question today, and I figured I'd toss it out to everyone who runs across this post. She works in a 5/6 split class, and they're working on a unit on patterns and functions. They're ordering the data into columns, each of which is Read More...
Posted Wednesday, November 17, 2004 11:15 AM by LarryOsterman | 20 Comments

What does style look like, part 6

Previously in the series, I've touched on indentation and commenting , The next aspect of "style" that I want to talk about is variable (and function) naming conventions. Upon reflection, I hungarianized the code way too early in the series, it properly Read More...
Posted Tuesday, November 16, 2004 10:09 AM by LarryOsterman | 14 Comments

What does style look like, part 5

Continuing the discussion of "style".. The other day , I talked a bit about how comments affect the "style" of a piece of code. Today, I want to talk about the headers that accompany each routine and file. And yes, every routine and file needs to have Read More...
Posted Monday, November 15, 2004 10:07 AM by LarryOsterman | 14 Comments

What does style look like, part 4

Continuing the discussion of "style".. Yesterday , I showed the code reformatted into "BSD" style format, which looks like: #include "list.h" main(C cArg, SZ rgszArg[]) { I iNode; I cNodes = atoi(rgszArg[1]); I cNodesToSkip = atoi(rgszArg[2]); PNODE pnodeT; Read More...
Posted Friday, November 12, 2004 11:11 AM by LarryOsterman | 25 Comments

What does style look like, part 3

When we last left the code we were looking at, it looked like: #include "list.h" main(C cArg, SZ rgszArg[]) { I iNode, cNodes = atoi(rgszArg[1]), cNodesToSkip = atoi(rgszArg[2]); PNODE pnodeT, pnodeCur; InitNodes(cNodes); for (iNode = 2, pnodeCur = PnodeNew(1); Read More...
Posted Thursday, November 11, 2004 12:20 PM by LarryOsterman | 22 Comments

What does style look like, part 2

In my previous style post , I took a piece of code from Robert Sedgewicks algorithms book, and "Hungarian-ized" it. The routine currently looks like: #include "list.h" main(C cArg, SZ rgszArg[]) { I iNode, cNodes = atoi(rgszArg[1]), cNodesToSkip = atoi(rgszArg[2]); Read More...
Posted Wednesday, November 10, 2004 11:23 AM by LarryOsterman | 13 Comments

What does style look like?

Building on my post on style last week. So what does "coding style" look like, anyway? Well, the facile answer is "I know it when I see it". But it's more than that. A good coding style should result in high quality self-documented code that is esthetically Read More...
Posted Tuesday, November 09, 2004 10:09 AM by LarryOsterman | 15 Comments

How did we make the DOS redirector take up only 256 bytes of memory?

In one of my early posts , I mentioned a status review we had with BillG for the DOS Lan Manager redirector (network filesystem). I also talked to Robert Scoble about this in the last of my Channel9 videos . One thing that somehow got missed in both the Read More...
Posted Monday, November 08, 2004 1:22 PM by LarryOsterman | 18 Comments

I don't normally cross-post, but this was just too funny.

From TheDailyWTF : DBA : Do you want usernames to be unique? Developer : Yes (next day) DBA : Should passwords be unique as well? Developer : No (later that day) DBA : Shouldn't we require passwords to be unique? Developer : No DBA : Are you sure? Developer: Read More...
Posted Friday, November 05, 2004 10:57 PM by LarryOsterman | 7 Comments
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Fifth video's up

The fifth (and last) video's up here , if you've been reading my blog, it's not new, but :) Sorry about no real content, work's been pretty busy this week. Read More...
Posted Friday, November 05, 2004 4:07 PM by LarryOsterman | 0 Comments
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And the fourth video's now up on Channel9.

Robert just posted the fourth of the videos he shot last month. This one's short, about the hardest problem I've solved. Read More...
Posted Thursday, November 04, 2004 2:13 PM by LarryOsterman | 10 Comments

Third video's up

Robert just posted the 3rd video, it can be found here . Enjoy! Read More...
Posted Wednesday, November 03, 2004 4:02 PM by LarryOsterman | 4 Comments

Coding with Style

AKA, Software archaeology , a working example. I've touched on this this a couple of times before, but I'd like to talk a bit about style. This isn't an issue for people working on a single person project, but once you start working in a team, the issue Read More...
Posted Wednesday, November 03, 2004 10:34 AM by LarryOsterman | 27 Comments

Still more videos posted

Robert just dropped the second of my Channel9 videos up, you can find it here . Enjoy :) Read More...
Posted Tuesday, November 02, 2004 2:05 PM by LarryOsterman | 5 Comments

November 2nd

Twenty four years ago, on the Tuesday of the first full week in November, I dutifully filled in my absentee presidential ballot (for John Anderson, who was running as an independent). I've voted in every election that I've been eligible since then. As Read More...
Posted Tuesday, November 02, 2004 10:10 AM by LarryOsterman | 26 Comments

Hey wow, I'm famous :)

Wow, what an amazing evening. Earlier this evening, Valorie and I had the opportunity to attend my 20th anniversary dinner at the Newport Hills Golf Club (this place has the most unbelievable views of Seattle, Bellevue, and the Olympics). We got to hang Read More...
Posted Monday, November 01, 2004 11:59 PM by LarryOsterman | 20 Comments

Another year, another halloween

Well, another Halloween has come and gone. Last night was quite depressing, only one kid showed up at our door. On the other hand, the kids and I had a lot of fun carving pumpkins, for some reason we missed doing that last year, so it was nice to get Read More...
Posted Monday, November 01, 2004 5:21 PM by LarryOsterman | 11 Comments
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