If there is one thing that I feel can be best learned from programming for the internet it’s modularity. Programmers preach modularity through encapsulation and design models but ultimately sometimes it’s really easy to just throw in a hacky fix and be done with the whole mess. Welcome to the “I need this fix last week” school of code updating. Honestly, that kind of thing happens to the best of us.
Being that I am a web developer, specifically working in an interpreted language, there are two ways that things can go, clean, neat and easy to manage or a horribly mangled mess. My first couple of full-scale projects on the web were more of the latter and less of the former. I cobbled things together any way that worked within the time frame that I was given. Ultimately this meant little to me at the time, but for the people that are maintaining the code now… I am terribly sorry. Fortunately, I know the poor sap that is currently updating the code so he has a resource to cut through the thick undergrowth of spaghetti. Continue reading »
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