Author Archives: ed.peters

Who’s Inhabiting Your Code?

By ed.peters in Best Practice | April 12, 2012
Lately I’ve been thinking about the notion of “beautiful code”, and finding it to be less and less satisfying as a goal. First off, beauty is elusive: everyone seems to have a different concept of what it means (and except for mine, they’re all wrong). And second, even when you can label a piece of [...]

Why Homework?

By ed.peters in Culture, Development | March 10, 2011
The Discovery Channel spends an entire week every year convincing us how incredibly awesome sharks are.  How do they do it?  Do they take a mako shark out of the ocean, squeeze it into a suit, and ask it questions about being a shark?  Not hardly.  They let us watch the thing cruising through the [...]