Codeja Vu
Geir
defines codeja vu: the feeling that you are coding something that you already coded before. Time to refactor.
That doesn't always mean that it's time to refactor:
Sometimes, you really did code that same thing
before, but it was five or ten years ago and you
aren't even using the same language any more.
Via
James Strachan. James writes:
That "hey wait a minute, haven't I implemented
this once already" thought is quite common,
especially if you've been writing java code for a while.
It ain't just Java.
I've had times where I knew I'd written "something like this"
before, wrote the new thing, and then later found the earlier
version. Sometimes I have ended up having re-invented the
same name, and nearly line-for-line same code.
Or ... I'll be writing something and realize that I need to
write a support routine "over there", so I go "over there"
and start to write the fooRoutine, only to discover that
it's already there -- I had already written that one and
given it the name I just thought I re-invented.
11:58:39 PM
Random radio Weblog