97 Things Every Programmer Should Know

Index 227

O
Ølmheim, Jørn
Beauty Is in Simplicity, 10–11
biography, 207
Once and Only Once principle, 61
openArchitectureWare, 47
Open/Closed Principle, 61
open source, 11, 68–69, 96, 140
optimization, 83, 92, 97, 148, 179
order, 1

P
pair programming, 128–129, 170–171
parallelism, 114–115
parsimony, 83
Pascal, 66, 88
Patterns of Enterprise Application
Architecture, 82
Pepperdine, Kirk
biography, 208
Missing Opportunities for
Polymorphism, 118–119
The Road to Performance Is Littered
with Dirty Code Bombs,
148–149
WET Dilutes Performance Bottlenecks,
182–183
performance
bottlenecks, 182–183
management, 82–83
tests, 165
Philosophical Investigations, 142
Plato, 10
polymorphism, 118–119
Poppendieck, Mary, 44
PostgreSQL, 96
The Pragmatic Programmer, 54, 60
process bottlenecks, 28
professional programmers, 134–135
profiling tool, 178
programming languages (see languages)
project management, providing estimates,
100–101
Prolog, 88
Pylint, 159
Python, 55, 67, 115, 131
Pylint, 159
standard library, 159

R

RDBMS systems, 96–97

readability of code, 10, 26–27, 31, 38,

46–47, 130, 163

reading code (see code, reading)

Reeves, Jack, 166

refactoring code, 12–13, 125

reinventing the wheel, 144–145, 179

removing code, 78–79, 150–151

repetition

logic, 61

practice, 44

process, 60

repetitive tasks, 156

response time, 82–83

return code, 52

reviews, code (see code, reviews)

ripple loading, 82

Rising, Linda

A Message to the Future, 116–117

biography, 209

Robinson, Carroll

biography, 199

Know How to Use Command-Line

Tools, 86–87

Rosch, Eleanor, 143

Rose, Seb

Act with Prudence, 2–3

biography, 217

Røssland, Kari

biography, 207

Pair Program and Feel the Flow,

128–129

Ruby, 55, 97

internal DSLs, 46

S

Saariste, Sam

biography, 216

Resist the Temptation of the Singleton

Pattern, 146–147

SableCC, 47

Sage, Jason P.

biography, 206

Reinvent the Wheel Often, 144–145

Scala, 55

internal DSLs, 46