Quality Code Hard lessons in asynchronous JavaScript code Last Friday I received a bug report for one of the extension I maintain. It took a while to first reproduce the case and then to figure out what was happening exactly. I found that my assumption about the execution order didn't match reality and that I was fighting a race condition.
Maintainability Maintainable Regular Expressions I've seen a lot of regular expressions in my career. Some genius, others monstrous, some very subtle and some really blunt. The person who wrote the expression usually did his best to make the expression work and finally succeeded in making his expression pass all the test cases he thought
