Programmers Weekly Newsletter - Thursday, May 28, 2015

Top new questions this week: Is it good that testers are competing to see who opens more bugs? I'm a software developer. There is a team of testers who follow and run test cases written by the analyst, but also perform exploratory testing. It seems like the testers have been competing to see ... programming-practices testing project-management   asked by Only a Curious Mind 26 votes answered by Bryan Oakley 38 votes Can you implement "object-oriented" programming without the class keyword? Say we want to provide an abstraction of an "account" in a bank. Here's one approach, using a function object in Python: def account(): """Return a dispatch dictionary representing a bank ... object-oriented language-agnostic abstraction python-3.x   asked by overexchange 20 votes answered by Doc Brown 41 votes Why can't there be any implicit conversions? As I understand it, implicit conversions can cause errors. But that doesn't make sense -- shouldn't normal conversions also cause errors, then? Why not have len(100) work by the language ... programming-languages type-conversion   asked by Pie Crust 11 votes answered by Steve Jessop 28 votes Semantically more appropriate package name than `util` for the following things? As a strawman consider the package java.util it is a dumping ground for various classes that in most cases do not share anything in common other than the person that put them there was lazy or ... naming packages namespace   asked by Jarrod Roberson 11 votes answered by Mike Nakis 7 votes Is Visitor Pattern valid in this scenario? The goal of my task is to design a small system which can run scheduled recurring tasks. A recurring task is something like "send an email to administrator every hour from 8:00 am to 5:00 pm, Monday ... design design-patterns object-oriented visitor-pattern   asked by Sher10ck 8 votes answered by Andy 3 votes Reusing a merged branch, good practice? Currently, I used to create a new branch each time I have to add a new feature to my application. When my feature is finished and functional, I merge it with the master branch. But later, when I ... git branching   asked by gaetanm 5 votes answered by Ixrec 7 votes Kth selection routine - Floyd Algorithm 489 I have recently come across a promising Kth selection routine that reportedly outperforms quickselect the Floyd, Rivest Select routine. This Wikipedia article provides a pseudocode version which I ... algorithms c performance sorting image-processing   asked by Andy Dansby 5 votes answered by Andy Dansby 3 votes Greatest hits from previous weeks: Why are there so few C compilers? C is one of the most widely-used languages in the world. It accounts for a huge proportion of existing code and continues to be used for a vast amount of new code. It's beloved by its users, it's so ... c compilers implementations   asked by anon 55 votes answered by Basile Starynkevitch 111 votes Why should I use an MVC pattern? It seems everyone doing web applications nowadays wants to use MVC for everything. I find it hard to convince myself to use this pattern, however. I understand the general idea is to separate the ... design-patterns mvc rationale   asked by Billy ONeal 50 votes answered by Gnawme 33 votes Can you answer these? How to use one web page to create and edit database entries My team and I are developing a java web application which allows our admins to create and edit "methods" which can later be viewed by other users. We are currently discussing the best way to ... java database design-patterns   asked by Nijin22 1 vote What are my options for exposing customization settings to an admin user? I'm writing a blog system as a learning exercise and I would like to allow the blog owner to select / change some custom options base on features that I chose to expose to them such as: change blog ... asp.net-mvc   asked by Dan Beaulieu 1 vote How to store data that is recorded with different frequency? I'm writing a metallurgical web application, that must store data (electrical parameters) recorded at different frequencies. For example: six parameters recorded with frequency of one measure per ... database-design data-structures data   asked by trejder 1 vote

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