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Joined Dec 2006
About
I am a 23-year-old living in Blacksburg, Virginia (Virginia Tech). I have been working with the web since I learned HTML in 7th grade and have been having a lot of fun with it ever since. I work for a local design and development company called New City Media as a PHP programmer and database developer. My work-load consists of mainly writing PHP code, designing database tables in MySQL 4/5 or MSSQL 2005, general tech support for our hosting, DNS, and database servers and also the occasional tech support call for a client.
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Jul 20, 2019 · Reinout Korbee
Did I miss your ideal burndown chart or are you saying it's the one where the team doesn't complete their sprint?? Agree with Chris. It's tracking progress on DAILY estimates. If you're blowing daily commitments day after day then your burndown chart should reflect that.
Oct 31, 2011 · Avinash Zala
Jun 28, 2011 · mitchp
Nov 17, 2009 · Robert Dempsey
Oct 19, 2009 · house
Sep 11, 2009 · Mert TOL
Sep 08, 2009 · Yan Fortin
Sep 01, 2009 · Gregory Mostizky
Aug 28, 2009 · Aayush Shastri
Jul 05, 2009 · David Gonzalez
May 20, 2009 · Csaba Okrona
Mar 24, 2009 · Kris Brixon
Mar 11, 2009 · Stefan Koopmanschap
Feb 25, 2009 · Mr B Loid
Feb 16, 2009 · Mr B Loid
Feb 11, 2009 · Juozas Kaziukenas
Feb 05, 2009 · Thierry Lefort
Feb 04, 2009 · Stefan Koopmanschap
Feb 04, 2009 · Stefan Koopmanschap
Feb 02, 2009 · Michael Bernat
Jan 25, 2009 · Ka Wai
Jan 22, 2009 · Mr B Loid
Jan 20, 2009 · Mukunda rao
Jan 16, 2009 · Alvin Ashcraft
Jan 16, 2009 · Larry Holcher
Thanks for the comments everyone :)
@Arek
I certainly don't recommend coding in a bad style. In fact I don't think I did that. However, doing things like simplifying conditional statements by putting them in a function simply isn't necessary. The point I was trying to make was to not get caught up in making beautiful, understandable, code from the very beginning. This is NOT to say that you should give a rat's ass about comments, readability, and absolutely not functionality. If you are a lazy coder, refactoring is not for you because you have bigger problems to deal with.
@Tracy
I would agree with you that refactoring is definitely a more serious degree of 'cleaning up your code'. However, I'm not so sure that enhancements or additions qualifies as refactoring. Correcting possible bugs or creating extra cases for something also, imho, falls outside of refactoring.
@Ronald
I'm not sure if you are defending or attacking my words. Either way, read my above comments to Arek. I guess I have to get used to people interpreting my statements as being absolute.. I'm more of a middle of the road kinda guy.
The topic I did not touch on but should have, in this small, quick post, is the importance of unit-testing. As we all should know by now is that when we go back and touch code, in any respect, you risk breaking some part of your site. Hopefully it's obvious, but what if you broke a fringe case? Unit-testing is critical.
Jan 16, 2009 · Michael Bernat
Thanks for the comments everyone :)
@Arek
I certainly don't recommend coding in a bad style. In fact I don't think I did that. However, doing things like simplifying conditional statements by putting them in a function simply isn't necessary. The point I was trying to make was to not get caught up in making beautiful, understandable, code from the very beginning. This is NOT to say that you should give a rat's ass about comments, readability, and absolutely not functionality. If you are a lazy coder, refactoring is not for you because you have bigger problems to deal with.
@Tracy
I would agree with you that refactoring is definitely a more serious degree of 'cleaning up your code'. However, I'm not so sure that enhancements or additions qualifies as refactoring. Correcting possible bugs or creating extra cases for something also, imho, falls outside of refactoring.
@Ronald
I'm not sure if you are defending or attacking my words. Either way, read my above comments to Arek. I guess I have to get used to people interpreting my statements as being absolute.. I'm more of a middle of the road kinda guy.
The topic I did not touch on but should have, in this small, quick post, is the importance of unit-testing. As we all should know by now is that when we go back and touch code, in any respect, you risk breaking some part of your site. Hopefully it's obvious, but what if you broke a fringe case? Unit-testing is critical.
Jan 14, 2009 · Brandon Cannaday
Jan 13, 2009 · Brandon Cannaday
Jan 07, 2009 · Veera Sundar
Dec 26, 2008 · saqib ku
Dec 18, 2008 · Adrian MG
Dec 08, 2008 · Mike Bernat
Oct 15, 2008 · Dougal Matthews
Jul 28, 2008 · Adam McKerlie
Jul 16, 2008 · Michael Bernat
Jul 07, 2008 · Rolf Strijdhorst
Jun 24, 2008 · Michael Bernat
Jun 18, 2008 · Manuel Lemos
Jun 18, 2008 · Daniel Saxil-Nielsen
Jun 15, 2008 · Michael Bernat
Jun 13, 2008 · christiaan baes
Jun 09, 2008 · admin
May 27, 2008 · Tony Thomas
May 27, 2008 · admin
May 21, 2008 · Mr B Loid
Apr 21, 2008 · Indiana Jones
Apr 11, 2008 · Roshan Bhattarai
Feb 03, 2008 · Shaun Anderson
Jan 28, 2008 · Steven Harris
Jan 24, 2008 · Jim Wilson
Jan 24, 2008 · Jim Wilson
Jan 20, 2008 · Phil Thompson
Nov 29, 2007 · Dan Sim
Sep 21, 2007 · Mr B Loid