The Inner Game of Tennis by W. Timothy Gallwey argues that success can result only if you don't try too hard which sounds counter intuitive. Trying too hard means becoming emotionally attached and being judgmental. He gives practical tips on how to achieve relaxation while practicing. First and foremost, you have to be interested in what you are doing.
A very good book for anyone who wants to be a better person by using tennis (or any other practice) as a means to achieve inner peace and perfection.
Saturday, January 31, 2015
Thursday, January 15, 2015
Minimal Software Design
A minimal software design effort should include the following:
- What problem are you trying to solve? Is the problem specified clearly?
- Comprehensibility: What will you do to help others (or yourself one year later) understand your code/design. Hint: Wiki, coding conventions, KISS.
- Modularity/dependency: What approach will you take to make your modules independent? Hint: Encapsulation, MVC pattern.
- Testability: How will you make sure that your implentation will be as unit testable as possible? Hint: Keep methods short. Whenever you can, make objects/methods static.
- Error handling and logging: What error cases do you foresee and what mechanisms will you have in place to log and recover from errors? Hint: Exceptions.
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