How long should I wait before I can review my own programming as objectively as possible? Or should I simply hope for bad memory?
The same can be said for my prose. While I rarely review my blog posts after their posting, I should be reviewing the articles I write on my web site. An example from the Software Design article:
Another indirect effect of a simpler language is that by hand-picking only a few software design patterns syntactically available in the language you can push developers consistently towers certain best practices.
I can almost feel my brain’s “autocomplete” in its way of moving my typing fingers when I wrote towards as towers. How could I have not seen that mistake?
I do review my emails before sending, for work or otherwise, so why is it that when my writing is more creative, like programming or those thick articles or mine, I flat out write myself I to exhaustion, and then simply procrastinate the review of what I wrote? Do I need an editor, or peer programming?
Published on October 10, 2012 at 21:01 EDT
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