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Um, Life?

Thu Jun 25 01:41:13 PM MDT 2026 Today feels like there are so many difficult things going on, and I don’t know how to even do that! It’s annoying at least, but what am I supposed to do about it? I don’t know. Life will always be what it will be and that’s all there is to it. I mean, come on. If I had the ability to make this life listen to me, do you honestly think I would be here thinking about it all? I highly doubt it. There’s nothing in this life that will make me want to understand it less than someone in my face yelling at me telling me everything will be “fine.” Yeah, that doesn’t fly for me. Not at all.
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KISS

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 a few lines long. Don’t write hundreds of lines in a single method. You’d go crazy nuts trying to find a bug in there! No really. Be like searching for a needle in a haystack. Don’t try it. You’ll go blind.

Just keep your methods/functions short and simple. I’d rather look at several methods with a few lines of code than a few methods with lots of lines of code in them. What’s going on where? Make it easy and simple to understand.

Comments

Make your code self documenting. Don’t flood it with unneccessary comments. If you want a method to return a string in HTML format, name it like that. Instead of getContent() call it getContentAsHtml(). Makes sense right? Whoever is looking at the source code later on down the line won’t wonder what format the content will be returned as.

Documentation

Provide adequate documenation. Don’t write novels with your documentation. But write what is needed to get someone started. You know how projects have a two minute get started guide? Yep do that. If it’s a Java project, have Javadocs available for it. You don’t want to have your users in the dark about what your project does.

Write Tutorials Smart

If you’re going to write a website that contains tutorials. Um, keep them simple and easy to follow. Also keep with the actual current standards. I should say that again. Keep with the current standards.

An example of this. Years ago, it was typical to have your HTML markup in uppercase. That isn’t the case anymore (no pun intended… or was there?). No realy though. Do not put your HTML in upper case. Don’t! It’s bad. You will be looked down upon so bad. So very very bad. Keep current with whatever language you’re running with and be good at it. Seriously do it. You can deprecate things, that’s just fine. Most languages have a way to do that. Use it!

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