I just noticed Cablevision’s Optimum Online service has begun hijacking DNS Error pages with, you guessed it, ad-sponsored results:

And apparently I’m not the only one that noticed: Justin Flood and Dan. As Justin Flood reported Cablevision has secretly adjusted their TOS to reflect this morally questionable service:
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Have you written Java code for your database connections in JDBC that ends up being thrown away? Would using a new database software easily kill your product and set you back months at a time to port? Well, if so, keep reading as the goal of this article is to make you a [...]

“Clean Code” by Robert C Martin uses the phrase “code sense” when describing a developer’s relationship with clean code.  I like this phrase.  It represents the intuition that goes with looking at code.
He writes about how most people can identify messy code.  The problem comes in how to make it better.  This “code sense” lets [...]

When I wrote about defending the code, I described how we don’t want to meet a date at the expense of our ability to meet future dates.  This applies to future projects as well.  If we meet the production date for the first project my producing a shaky pile of code, what is going to [...]

As I read “Clean Code” by Robert C Martin, I was particular drawn to the passage about why unrealistic commitments should not be an excuse for writing bad code.  He points out that while it is a manager’s job to “defend the schedule and requirements”, it is a developer’s “job to defend the code with [...]