Promit's Ventspace

I was originally going to write something myself. I decided it wasn't necessary; Washu, jpetrie, and others did most of the actual work already. This list will be updated whenever I feel like it. The ones I like are in bold.

Washu's JournalWhy are you infected with Singletonitis?
Singletonitis, Part 2
Singletonitis, Part 3ThreadsSingletons and Memory...

Here it is. A first round of Promit's Principles of Software Engineering. I may expand on this list in future posts, but this will get us started nicely.

1) All good software engineering is fundamentally motivated by KISS and YAGNI.
It's a fairly straightforward observation that the complexity of software increases as functionality and flexibility are...

I've decided that I'm pretty tired of repeating this all the time, so I may as well write it all down.
The official spec doc is completely useless; you have to refer to the extension specs for any kind of useful information.
The extensions thing is irritating, and you usually end up using several dozen by the time you're done doing anything vaguely...

If you're reading this, save a copy. I'm revealing deeply guarded secrets of GDNet's internal operations. There's no telling when this post will be annihilated. Don't say I didn't warn you.
As many of you have noticed, GDNet has been down over the last ten days or so. While the site leadership wishes to keep the exact happenings secret, I feel you are all...