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As someone who used to read a lot of books on Zen, I've been enjoying these. The one on triggers made me laugh -- at work we have a running joke about triggers.
by msluyter 14y ago
As someone who used to read a lot of books on Zen, I've been enjoying these. The one on triggers made me laugh -- at work we have a running joke about triggers. I've expressed so much dislike for them that when discussing a problem people will say "we could use triggers to do that!" just to get a rise out of me.
- haberman 14y agoPeople likewise goad me at work by suggesting extensive use of design patterns (particularly in absurd combinations like AbstractFlyweightFactory).
- eru 14y agoAt my shop we use extensive use of point-less ahem point-free code. Of course, you can also always use more category theory. And, the best remedy against the type system giving you headaches, is: more types! (If you haven't guessed, yet, we use Haskell.)
- jmcqk6 14y agoThese can take the form of the joke "if your solution to a problem is [x] then you now have two problems." Possible substitutions for x: Regular Expressions, DB Triggers, xml, Java/VB/PHP/Other language, NoSQL... the list can go on and on here.