Monthly Archives: September 2020

review, software engineering

Book: Clean Code

I wanted to do some on-screen time (which I’ve been bad about for far too long) so yesterday I pulled down a book I’ve had for years but barely cracked. “Clean Code” by Robert C. Martin is usually wedged between Software Requirements fro.Microsfot Press and Extreme Programming Explained, and under Secure Coding. I don’t really read many technical books: I prefer a good reference book like the old Java in a Nutshell books. So we will see what I get out of this run.

Early impressions are that this seems like a thick book for some simple concepts. The first chapter is a lot of quotes and stories to motivate and give the reader a desire to read the book, but I just skimmed it, as I think most people who would read the book would have already seen bad code and know the need for clean code.

hardware problem

Church Meeting Broadcast Notes – Alternate Setups

So far we have two different kinds of meetings that differ from the “normal” meetings I blogged about. Our church once a month has special Fast and Testimony meetings, where members are encouraged to fast and pray for 24 hours on the first Sunday of a month and come to church to share their testimonies of the Gospel. We also twice a year have Stake Conferences where members from different congregations in the area get together for a larger meeting. I’m adding notes about them here in a separate post in the hope that they are useful to someone else.

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