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Issue: 6.6 (September/October 2008)
Author: Marc Zeedar
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RBD Number: 6611
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Recently I had an idea for an odd little tool to help me in my fiction writing. My ideas were vague and I wasn't even sure what, exactly, the tool would do or how it would work, but aspects of it intrigued me, not just on a functional level, but for the programming challenge as well. Without a further thought, I dove in and started programming.
This particular tool could be a standalone product or perhaps embedded inside a large application. I wasn't sure, so I decided I would write it as a custom canvas control, making it easy to reuse in another app if I wanted.
I've learned a lot about programming over the last decade and I thought I would take advantage of that and write some good code. It started off well, nice and clean and clear, but within a few days things started to go downhill. As my idea refined itself, my vision of the project morphed. Things I had assumed would work a certain way no longer did. Suddenly I saw a large disconnect between my code and my interface.
It was about this time that I realized I was struggling to understand my own code! I kept running into situations where I'd say to myself, "Why did I do it that way again?" or "What the heck is this method supposed to do?"
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