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February 2007 - Greg Beech's Tech Blog

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  • You can't solve a problem that doesn't exist

    On the MSDN forums there are usually a few posts each week along the lines of “Please tell me what you think of this…” followed by a fairly long listing of entirely uncommented code. Presumably the poster is looking for feedback on the quality of the code but they are missing the fundamental point of writing code: Why did they write it in the first place? If the code you write solves the problem that...
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  • Even good Hungarian notation is still bad

    I was bored this weekend so I ended up trawling through a bunch of blog archives and came across posts from some well respected people about why they believe Hungarian notation (in its originally intended form) is a good thing. There are entries from Eric Lippert , Joel Spolsky and Larry Osterman which essentially have the same point that originally Hungarian notation was intended to reflect the purpose...
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