tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24861952591550822122010-02-12T13:31:11.563-08:00Nathan Lanehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11094451213403897606noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2486195259155082212.post-13937042795815165442010-02-08T13:01:00.000-08:002010-02-08T15:45:38.202-08:002010-02-08T15:45:38.202-08:00

For six years now I have served my time as an IT professional in the Quality Assurance sector. Over that period of time I have tested a wide variety of systems from desktop applications to video games, and from web sites to embedded wifi networked systems. All of these systems required a different means to test them effectively. In each system the same mindset (detail-oriented) was employed, but

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As I program more and more the quantity of files, classes, enumerations, structs, and fields increases dramatically. With that increase comes the ever increasing possibility of defects. When I am programming I try to follow a set of guidelines known as a programming style guide. Style guides help us to be consistent in whatever we're doing. It is probably more common for style guides to be used

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As I continually program throughout my career and daily life, I come across the problem often that there are simply too many ways to program a system. The other problem is that there really isn't much of a correct way to program any specific system. It seems that the means to an end often involves trends. To clarify, I have been trying to program a decent text-based calculator for some time now.

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A while back I determined that I wanted an easy to use text-mode calculator that could perform all of the calculations I required in my job as a web programmer. Often these are simple arithmetic. As I set out to write my first calculator that was more than a simple GUI with buttons to click, I began asking questions about the best method to use in the process. I already knew about postfix

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