Strategies For Global Data ( hey it happens… )

[ disclaimer: I see this technique as 'damage control' and not a best (or even good) practice. Yes, globals are to be avoided ]

Twitter is a wallflower’s dream… anyone can eavesdrop and quietly judge from afar….
Last night Jesse Freeman , Ralph Hauwert and Robert Penner had a little discussion via Twitter about statics & globals. It starts here. Robert encapsulates the danger of globals with this:

Statics are evil when they puncture encapsulation and hide dependencies that impale anyone who tries to use them somewhere new.

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Offical FDT Training

I have just completed a training series for Powerflasher for FDT.  FDT is a great product and I am very happy to have been asked to write and produce this training for them.

The videos go over what I have learned after many, many hours of working with Eclipse and FDT.

Party Pooper

My host went through some changes and it killed my blog. I have stuff backed up, but there is some weirdness going on. Hopefully I’ll be black in action soon.