Developing Programmers .com

Plug for Ronny De Winter’s Software quality blog; which this week is quoting basics of unix philisophy from “The Art of Unix Programming” by Eric Raymond.

We all know we should document our code. But how much documentation is enough? This article explores three main kinds of documentation for programmers and suggests tools for producing API documentation automatically.

Joel Spolsky has a marvellous article, “Hitting the High Notes”, which describes software design and development ability in terms of a musical or acting performance.

We all know that we “should” write tests for each new feature we add to ensure that the feature works correctly. At work we don’t have a formal testing process so I use a trivial shell script to run a series of tests for me.