Posts Tagged "coding"
When Code Duplication is not Code Duplication
Duplicating code is a bad thing. Any engineer worth his salt knows that the more you repeat yourself, the more difficult it will be to…
How Can Comments be Controversial?
Comments add information to your code. They don’t impact the execution of that code. So how can they be bad? I believe that more commenting…
Why are Side Effects Bad?
Side effects are any observable change to the state of an object. Some people might qualify this by saying that side effects are implicit or…
Sound Synthesis in Java
Cover of Sound Synthesis in Java by Evan X. Merz Sound Synthesis in Java introduces sound synthesis concepts using the most widely taught…
Swarm Intelligence in Music in The Signal Culture Cookbook
The Signal Culture Group just published The Signal Culture Cookbook. I contributed a chapter titled “The Mapping Problem”, which deals with…