Beautiful Code in the City
Tuesday, September 30th, 2008I missed the Java History and Outlook talk (it was crowded), so I went to Beautiful Software with Dr. Michele Lanza. It was a wild shot, but it turned out to be a good one. Lanza talked about his research project with visualizing code using some quite interesting tools. We’ve probably all tried generating a [...]
16,147 km
Tuesday, July 15th, 2008 That is how far I’ll travel to go to JAOO this year. And the return trip will be as long… I might be a little crazy but I simply didn’t want to miss JAOO in Aarhus just because I live in Sydney now.
This year is especially exciting for me because it is my [...]
What is beautiful code?
Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008First of all: What is beauty?
For beauty includes three conditions, “integrity” or “perfection,” since those things which are impaired are by the very fact ugly; due “proportion” or “harmony”; and lastly, “brightness” or “clarity,” whence things are called beautiful which have a bright color.
— Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica.
This definition of beauty by Thomas Aquinas was [...]