Title: Two Pence Worth

Author: Bob Schmidt

Date: 05 November 2017 16:52:12 +00:00 or Sun, 05 November 2017 16:52:12 +00:00

Summary: Another crop of sage sayings from ACCU members.

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One of the marvellous things about being part of an organisation like ACCU is that people are always willing to help out and put in their two-pence-worth of advice. We are capturing some of those gems and will print the best ones.

“Write your documentation in LaTeX in case a customer wants a bound copy of it.”
P. Diephe, UK

“Embrace cultural diversity in your team by using Unicode variable names.”
Anon

“Rebuild your machine every week to make sure you don’t pick up spurious DLLs when testing.”
James B, London

“Managers: encourage your coders to work on Open Source projects, giving you free access to any good ideas they have outside of work hours.”
A Consultant, Chicago

“Lose weight by ensuring your code doesn’t cause a build failure when you check it in.”
S Dahli, UK

“Make sure your developers are using the correct tab/space policy by reviewing their code changes with Notepad.”
T. More, Canterbury

“Before editing every source file create a new branch so that you can merge the required features into your release branch.”
N Machiavelli, Italy

“Improve compilation times by removing all whitespace from your source files.”
Phil H, Birmingham

“Give your code a more mathematical feel by overloading lots of different operators.”
Anon

“Save time on lengthy handover notes when you leave by documenting as you go along.”
Anon

“Buy your manager two copies of The Mythical Man Month so they can read it quicker.”
Fred B, USA

“Avoid having to keep learning new programming languages by just transpiling your favourite language to JavaScript.”
Ryan D, The Internet

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