Keep It Simple Stupid (No Really) From time to time I find it amusing what kind of code can be written and what code actually gets passed through to a production setting. Most of the time it’s something I’ve written myself. Ever look back to a project you worked on a long time ago? That’s a scary thought now isn’t it? You take a look back and go… how did that ever work? You also might think, what in the world was I thinking when I coded that? Awful Markup Back when I first started learning HTML it was the standard to have all of your tags in uppercase. Uppercase! I suppose someone wanted to establish content from presentation or structure. Yeah structure. HTML isn’t a presentation layer, that would be CSS. Looking back at that code I cringe. Why would anyone ever even want to code in all uppercase? It didn’t make any sense. Not only does it hurt the eyes to look at it, but it’s also hard to read. Method Lengths How long should a method be exactly? I’ve read that methods should be ...
Don’t Be An Idiot Introduction You were probably sent here because you asked a question somewhere someplace and were given the instructions to read through this document first before proceeding to ask another question. It’s not your fault that you were stupid enough to ask such a question in the first place. It happens. The key takeaway point of this page is to learn what not to ask. Once you can tackle that part down you’ll be good to go. If you don’t understand what that even means? Well don’t worry we’ll get there. Over the years I’ve spent countless hours on websites geared in a Q&A approach to a community. Person A asks a question that is answered by persons B and C and so forth. I’ve learned a few things from reading peoples comments and have decided to write down what I’ve learned so that you, dear reader, will know what not to do. Tools You have tools around you. Use Them . I can’t stress this enough. Before you even think about asking a question do the following: ...