Last year Bob Martin gave my coworkers and me some training on how to implement Test Driven Development.  Bob advocated for very small methods – even suggesting that methods often only have one or two lines of code.  If they started approaching five to ten, they could probably be broken down into separate methods. Yesterday, […]

Picking right up where we left off last time, it’s time for some more definitions based on what Steve Yegge says programmers should know. 1. Static / Class Initializer A static or class initializer is the block of code called to create a static or class variable.  It must be called outside of the class […]

I laid out the concept for this series here. In this series I’m going to go through Steve Yegge’s interview questions and answer each one to ensure that I do, in fact, know the answers. I’m also linking to the Wikipedia articles on each topic, for any one who wants to study further. Is this […]