Foreword

Maybe you know the feeling of the need to write a not-that-private diary, to share your thoughts with someone, apart from "your only sane colleague from your work team", if you're lucky. So here it comes, yet another developer's blog... It nothing else, then it can make my English better.

Why the blog name "Programmed by Coincidence"? Well, I tried to think out a lot of different names, from the already-booked codeforpeople, favoritebytes or dontrepeatyourself, to still-free dryordie or kissanddry (footnote: someone quickly going to use them for their blog now, maybe? ;)). In the end, after letting my ideas settle down during a day, I came to programmedbycoincidence which I think "says it all" - it has got an IT word within, so nontechnical people will quickly run away, while also giving a small taste of irony, sarcasm, or whatever you'd call it. As experienced developers surely know, it points out a widespread bad programming practice. When one looks at it from one side, when someone starts to avoid this practice, he/she, with a dose of certainty, starts thinking about the code and its maintainability more, therefore also applying the good practices like DRY or KISS more. Finally, on a lighter note, we all are somewhat "programmed by coincidence", aren't we? ;)

So what am I to blog about in here? Not surprisingly, I'm going to write about interesting news and findings about my favorite programming tools, libraries, practices etc. These don't need to be interesting or likable to everyone, but well, that's life, isn't it. I will also probably share some criticisms on the various IT products, so that's why their authors, you should better get prepared... ;)

And yes, I do like using smileys :)