Do you often forget to comment your code and find yourself scratching your head years later, trying to figure out what's going on? After a few experiences like that you might be tempted to start ...

I've been doing a bunch of code reviews lately, and have been sending back almost 75% of them as unacceptable. One of the big, annoying culprits? Coders who make changes by commenting out old code, ...

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Source code that is well documented can decrease design cost and time to market by providing the insights into the software that would otherwise require time and experimentation to jog the developers’ ...

Martin Splitt of Google, in a rare case about talking specifically about Google rankings, said that he has confirmed that while Google can discover links within commented out HTML code, those links do ...

A few weeks back, my column on the value of comments in code caught a lot of comments itself. To a certain extent, I feel like Dirty Harry in Magnum Force: "I'm afraid you've misjudged me"…but not ...