Piatti del giorno 72

Finally getting to play with the shiny new Python scripting engine in Vectorworks. (See ya, Pascal. It’s been real).

• __attribute__ directives in Objective-C - Both better and worse than code comments: Better, in that the compiler will use them to do clever things, and worse, in that the compiler will use them to do clever subtly incorrect things if you ever permit them to drift. (The double-edged sword that is micromanagement).
• Agile Is Dead (Long Live Agility) - “…forming an industry group around the four [Agile] values always struck me as creating a trade union for people who breathe.”
• The Mid-Career Crisis of the Perl Programmer - “If you find a good client, you treat him or her like a combination of the Pope, the Queen, and the Dalai Lama, because a trustworthy client who pays you on time and doesn’t argue over little details of the contract is better than gold.”