I keep seeing people trip over common misconceptions of how Perl exists and what it does. There are generally 2 types of Perl Myth. Type 1: Things that people think about the language itself, that are not true Type 2: Behaviors people exhibit when using the language, which generally derive from lack of common sense. The first on...
Hey everyone, I have heard a myth that a job will finish faster if it is kept as the active window, and not in the background or minimized. Is there any truth to this? Does the CPU put precedence to tasks where this happens? Thanks, ...
I am working on a project for a client of the IT company I work for and I am convinced that Rails is perfect for it. I have a meeting in the next day or so, where I am afraid I am going to get bombarded with "why Rails?" type questions, and no doubt, a whole bunch of rhetoric like "Rails doesn't scale", "Rails is just a CMS" and the tho...
What are the myths or misconceptions related to Agile? There are lot of misconceptions related to Agile that an average new comer may fall into. What are the misconceptions in the Agile world and how do you justify that it is truly a misconception? Update: Summary of Agile Myths Agile doesn't allow documentation Agile methods do no...
Along the line of C++ Urban Myths and Perl Myths: What are the Java Urban Myths? That is, the ideas and conceptions about Java that are common but have no actual roots in reality. As a Java programmer, what ideas held by your fellow Java programmers have you had to disprove so often that you've come to believe they all learned at the ...
This has bothered me for awhile, and I have no clues if this is a myth. It seems that a factory pattern can ease the pain of adding a dependency for a class. For example, in a book, it has something like this Suppose that you have a class named Order. Initially it did not depend on anything. Therefore you didn't bother using a fact...