Alexey Voinov articles - 13 total
On code::dive 2019
Amazing crowd. I haven't seen so many geeks at one place for a very long time. I was actually surpris...
On not-so-smart coding standards
Sometimes bad naming conventions are biting us. Long before I joined the project someone decided that...
On Job Interviews
Just imagine what would they ask a published novelist, if they wanted to hire o...
On typical naming anti-pattern in Java
I think one word summarises it all: OneEyedOneHornedFlyinPurplePeopleEater. Every time I see a...
On wrappers for standard library
Every language has a standard library. Everybody uses it. Not everybody likes it. There are a couple...
Does anybody know a good working C++ formatting tool?
I've tried clang-format. It doesn't do what I need, it is not very flexible and authors are refusing...
On HackerX/Brno event
I had quite an interesting experience yesterday. I've attended HackerX event. It's kind of speed...
A little rant on naming things
Oh, how I'd love to forbid usage of info, data, and context in variable and class names. Looks like...
Did you ever try to write Java equals() with clean code style?
I've tried several ways of splitting it. All of them seem to be equally unreadable.
One tiny detail about The Saff Squeeze
The Saff Squeeze technique, introduced by Kent Beck few years ago is very nice. (Unfortunately, the...
A short note about failing tests
I've just noted, that when you are in the stage of failing test, not only it is the great time to...
Is legacy code that bad?
I took almost 30 years of professional programming to understand my real passion in it. Oddly enough...
