Fun-Driven Development
Keep It Smart and Stupid!
Marco Cecconi @sklivvz
Stack Overflow
Avast!
Talk like a pirate day
http://www.talklikeapirate.com/
I wrote a 2 million lines of code enterprise application and it was a ton of fun!
-- No One, Ever
Demo
Our code sucks
The word "sucks" appears 108 times in our codebase.
(most of these times it's probably correct)
private IDbConnection ownedConnection; // LINQ-to-SQL sucks; Our code sucks
The word "shit" appears 108 times in our codebase.
(most of these times it's used in the context "shit gets ill", meaning stuff is broken)
// yeah, this is really shitty code - someone else needs to refactor it for meOur code sucks
The word "f**k" appears 67 times in our codebase.
(not literally "f**k")
/// DON'T FUCKING CALL THIS UNLESS YOU'VE SPOKEN TO MULTIPLE DEVS// The database is down, fuck it// All others shall fuck offSome more important statistics
I dumped all our 100k commit messages in a database
Swearing by type
Our swearing is increasing
Our WTFs/minute are constant!
90% of all community feedback is crap.
-- Jeff Atwood (@codinghorror)
...that's 3.2% of our questions
- Jon Skeet can divide by zero.
- Jon Skeet once answered one of my questions 42 seconds before I asked it.
- Anonymous methods and anonymous types are really all called Jon Skeet.
- They just don't like to boast.
- (btw the above is an answer by... Jon Skeet)
- With 821 upvotes
HTML and Regex
https://unicornify.appspot.com/making-of
And now the conclusion
Thank you!
Have a productive conference!
Marco Cecconi @sklivvz
Stack Overflow