Software Warlock

Here is a nice little bit of satire that drives home the point that you can only be a good programmer when you acknowledge that you’re going to be constantly making mistakes, and you’re virtually paranoid about trying to find them.  Wisdom to live by.

This isn’t so much an article as it is a rant, but it talks about an important issue, unit testing.  Many times my automated unit tests have bailed me out when I wen to make a “little change that won’t affect anything” only to find a bunch of tests fail from an unexpected side affect.  It’s unfortunate that more developers won’t spend the time to develop unit tests, as it really does save time, frustration, and embarrassment in the future.