Book recommendation - Clean Code

I have heard a lot of people talk about Agile development methodology. The read agile manifesto and then they continue to do "waterfally" things. While this is a fairly interesting topic to discuss, I want to draw your attention towards people who created and signed this manifesto. I consider them the most influential people in the industry. It will be a very good idea to look at what they have to say about software. Let's pick one name "Robert C. Martin", popularly known as Uncle Bob.

Uncle Bob has authored and co-authored several books. He also has got an entire series of books under "Robert C Martin Series". I want to talk about a book that he has authored with title "Clean Code".

If there is just one book that you need to read then I would say that this is the book you need to read. At times people read books and then continue to produce shit, this is not such book. This will completely change the way you write your code. Although the examples are in Java, everything Uncle Bob says is mostly applicable to C#, Python, PHP etc. So, regardless of the technology you write your code in, do read this book. Don't be fooled by name of chapters in this book might sound simplistic to you (because there are entire chapters just of naming things, creating functions etc). This book has got potential to change the way you write your code forever. There is a lot of code in this book you have to take out time to read thru all of those and once you are done with the book; you will be a better developer.

What I just said might sound like a too big of promise to you. Just believe me, and buy this book.

Happy reading!

Flowers and dagger

Flowers and dagger. They don'td belong together. They are not related. Thinking of flowers; beauty, gentleness, peace and good appearance comes into mind. Opposite of flowers is dagger.

Now you must be thinking why am I describing dagger and flowers to you. The reason is to set background for question that rose in my mind during one of my closest family member's wedding; and my answer to it. As per the tradition, groom had to carry a dagger and a bunch of flowers in his hands all the time before wedding ceremony. Considering the fact that this custom was created by very thoughtful ancestors, I began to think of the reason behind coming up with this.

While looking at both together I was looking at the things around and realised that this was in indicator telling groom to prepare himself with a mindset that is both like flower and dagger. In the next phase of life he will have to use both flowers and dagger. At times he will have to be as gentle as flower and at times he will have to be as hard and threatening as dagger. Using flowers where dagger is needed would yeild wrong results and using dagger when flowers are needed would yeild wrong result.

Be mindful and always carry a dagger and a bunch of flowers.