Smokers, did you ever find yourself quitting from your smoking addiction? You need to understand fully what happens to the body when you do smoke. Here’s a timeline about some of the more immediate effects of quitting smoking and how will it affect your body.

* In 20 minutes your blood pressure will drop back down to normal.
* In 8 hours the carbon monoxide (a toxic gas) levels in your blood stream will drop by half, and oxygen levels will return to normal.
* In 48 hours your chance of having a heart attack will have decreased. All nicotine will have left your body. Your sense of taste and smell will return to a normal level.
* In 72 hours your bronchial tubes will relax, and your energy levels will increase.
* In 2 weeks your circulation will increase, and it will continue to improve for the next 10 weeks.
* In three to nine months coughs, wheezing and breathing problems will dissipate as your lung capacity improves by 10%.
* In 1 year your risk of having a heart attack will have dropped by half.
* In 5 years your risk of having a stroke returns to that of a non-smoker.
* In 10 years your risk of lung cancer will have returned to that of a non-smoker.
* In 15 years your risk of heart attack will have returned to that of a non-smoker.

This is what I am waiting. I am actually wishing of creating an application like this kind but then google googled their way out in making their own. How about me Mr. Google?

MARRIAGE

When I got home that night as my wife served dinner, I held her hand and said, I’ve got something to tell you. She sat down and ate quietly. Again I observed the hurt in her eyes.

Suddenly I didn’t know how to open my mouth. But I had to let her know what I was thinking. I want a divorce.. I raised the topic calmly.

She didn’t seem to be annoyed by my words, instead she asked me softly, why?

I avoided her question. This made her angry. She threw away the chopsticks and shouted at me, you are not a man! That night, we didn’t talk to each other. She was weeping. I knew she wanted to find out what had happened to our marriage. But I could hardly give her a satisfactory answer; she had lost my heart to Dew. I didn’t love her anymore. I just pitied her!

With a deep sense of guilt, I drafted a divorce agreement which stated that she could own our house, our car, and 30% stake of my company.

She glanced at it and then tore it into pieces. The woman who had spent ten years of her life with me had become a stranger. I felt sorry for her wasted time, resources and energy but I could not take back what I had said for I loved Dew so dearly. Finally she cried loudly in front of me, which was what I had expected to see. To me her cry was actually a kind of release. The idea of divorce which had obsessed me for several weeks seemed to be firmer and clearer now.

The next day, I came back home very late and found her writing something at the table. I didn’t have supper but went straight to sleep and fell asleep very fast because I was tired after an eventful day with Dew.

When I woke up, she was still there at the table writing. I just did not care so I turned over and was asleep again.

In the morning she presented her divorce conditions: she didn’t want anything from me, but needed a month’s notice before the divorce.
She requested that in that one month we both struggle to live as normal a life as possible. Her reasons were simple: our son had his exams in a month’s time and she didn’t want to disrupt him with our broken marriage.

This was agreeable to me. But she had something more, she asked me to recall how I had carried her into out bridal room on our wedding day.

She requested that everyday for the month’s duration I carry her out of our bedroom to the front door ever morning.. I thought she was going crazy. Just to make our last days together bearable I accepted her odd request.

I told Dew about my wife’s divorce conditions.. . She laughed loudly and thought it was absurd. No matter what tricks she applies, she has to face the divorce, she said scornfully..

My wife and I hadn’t had any body contact since my divorce intention was explicitly expressed. So when I carried her out on the first day, we both appeared clumsy. Our son clapped behind us, daddy is holding mummy in his arms. His words brought me a sense of pain. From the bedroom to the sitting room, then to the door, I walked over ten meters with her in my arms. She closed her eyes and said softly; don’t tell our son about the divorce. I nodded, feeling somewhat upset. I put her down outside the door. She went to wait for the bus to work. I drove alone to the office.

On the second day, both of us acted much more easily. She leaned on my chest. I could smell the fragrance of her blouse. I realized that I hadn’t looked at this woman carefully for a long time.. I realized she was not young any more. There were fine wrinkles on her face, her hair was graying! Our marriage had taken its toll on her. For a minute I wondered what I had done to her.

On the fourth day, when I lifted her up, I felt a sense of intimacy returning. This was the woman who had given ten years of her life to me.

On the fifth and sixth day, I realized that our sense of intimacy was growing again. I didn’t tell Dew about this. It became easier to carry her as the month slipped by. Perhaps the everyday workout made me stronger.

She was choosing what to wear one morning. She tried on quite a few dresses but could not find a suitable one. Then she sighed, all my dresses have grown bigger. I suddenly realized that she had grown so thin, that was the reason why I could carry her more easily.

Suddenly it hit me… she had buried so much pain and bitterness in her heart. Subconsciously I reached out and touched her head.

Our son came in at the moment and said, Dad, it’s time to carry mum out. To him, seeing his father carrying his mother out had become an essential part of his life. My wife gestured to our son to come closer and hugged him tightly. I turned my face away because I was afraid I might change my mind at this last minute. I then held her in my arms, walking from the bedroom, through the sitting room, to the hallway. Her hand surrounded my neck softly and naturally. I held her body tightly; it was just like our wedding day.

But her much lighter weight made me sad. On the last day, when I held her in my arms I could hardly move a step. Our son had gone to school. I held her tightly and said, I hadn’t noticed that our life lacked intimacy.

I drove to office…. jumped out of the car swiftly without locking the door. I was afraid any delay would make me change my mind…I walked upstairs. Dew opened the door and I said to her, Sorry, Dew, I do not want the divorce anymore.

She looked at me, astonished, and then touched my forehead.. Do you have a fever? She said. I moved her hand off my head. Sorry, Dew, I said, I won’t divorce. My marriage life was boring probably because she and I didn’t value the details of our lives, not because we didn’t love each other any more. Now I realize that since I carried her into my home on our wedding day I am supposed to hold her until death do us apart.

Dew seemed to suddenly wake up. She gave me a loud slap and then slammed the door and burst into tears. I walked downstairs and drove away.

At the floral shop on the way, I ordered a bouquet of flowers for my wife. The salesgirl asked me what to write on the card. I smiled and wrote, I’ll carry you out every morning until death do us apart.

That evening I arrived home, flowers in my hands, a smile on my face, I run up stairs, only to find my wife in the bed – dead.

The small details of your lives are what really matter in a relationship. It is not the mansion, the car, property, the money in the bank. These create an environment conducive for happiness but cannot give happiness in themselves. So find time to be your spouse’s friend and do those little things for each other that build intimacy. Do have a real happy marriage!

If you don’t share this, nothing will happen to you.
If you do, you just might save a marriage.

Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.

URL: http://code.google.com/p/codeleanrefactoringseminar/downloads/list
How should you refactor your code?

* Incremental refactoring & the Boy Scout rule

* “Leave the campground cleaner than when you found it”

* Code quality

Code Rot & Technical Debt
Code rot – the decay in software that occurs as a result of not updating your software in respect to the changing environment in which resides
Technical debt – The situation that occurs when you opt to postpone some development activities in favor of a shorter release date.
“Agile – the power of moving quickly and easily; nimbleness: exercises demanding agility“
Does being agile means that you get your product out the door as fast as possible?

* Yes..even if its substandard it is still being agile..

Would you deliver a “squirrel burger” if it meants that you could make the deadline?
Is having a technical debt a bad thing?

* Its tactical decision.

True meaning of Agility

* Agility is measured by the speed of change, not the speed of delivery

How do you know if your code is suffering from code rot?

* immobile

* obscure

* rigidity

* fragility

* Dispensible

How do you know if your code is suffering from a code rot?
Code quality – your code base that many bad code smells.
Development effort – it is becoming more and more difficult to understand.
- take more time to work on the same parts of the code in your system.
Productivity – more difficult to change, developers missing deadlines.

Strategies for Code rot

* automated unit tests

* code reviews

* continuous code write

What if theres too much technical debt in your project?

* Rewrite vs. Refactor

* Depends on the time

What happends to shops that don’t refactor?

* The dead sea effect

* code quality drops

* senior developers quits. they can no longer maintain program

* morale in the shop drops. seniors quit.

* New hires come in, new developers don’t stay because of code quality.

* The big ball of mud

* in many case, systems with large technical debts devolve into systems with no discernible architecture or design (aka the “Big Ball of Mud”)

* common in development shops that suffers from the dead sea effect.

* prevent your application from becoming a BBOM by continously refactoring your code.

Refactor or Rewrite?

* rewriting solves the symptom, not the root of the problem

* the real problem is that there is no refactoring.

* The BBOM is the symptom of bad development practices.

* You should only rewrite a system if:

* The system does not work at all

* It is cheaper to create a new system than to maintain the exsiting system

Beware of the Second System effect

* The second system effect is the tendency for developers to redesign a successor system into giant..

The tale of the Squirrel Burger

What would you do?

* For me, I would do give them the squirrel burger for I am thinking of the sales not the quality of burger we have.

Would you serve it?

Answers:

Reckless/Deliberate

* We don’t have time to design?

Prudent

* we must ship now and deal with consequences

* Now we now how we should have done it

Inadvertent

* What’s layering?

Anatomy of a Software Development “Squirrel Burger”

* No Documentation

* Nobody understands how the system works.

* The shop is “agile” so they decided to document

* Low Code Quality

* Inefficient Development Proccess

If it isn’t broken, then why should we even fix it?

* Refactoring as defect prevention

* refactoring makes code easirer to understand and that makes it easier to find bugs on your code

Why refactor our code if the client doesn’t pay us to refactor?

* Refactoring and the story of Louis Pasteur

* During Pasteur’s time, the concept of washing your hands before an operation was thought to be rediculous

* Refactoring is something that clients rarely ask for.

Refactoring Part II

*fizzbuzzzzbaz coding*

The two values of software

* Function

* Form

Some Bad Code smell Examples

* Contived complexity

* Bad design they want to try out.

Single Responsibility Principle
Many bad code smells inviolate this principle.
Its should do only one and one thing.

Does the following code violate the SRP?
Examples:

* Statement-level examples

* Method-level examples

* Class-level examples

Bad code Smells
The Couplers

* siamse twins, kill one affects the otherother

The Bloaters

* Class, that no one undestands it

Object Orrientation Abusers

* Program code they still writing C. Ugly code structure.

I am actually busy tweaking something when this video first released in public television. I am not into watching television that time when I heard the voice of Regine Velasquez that caught my attention. I love the cinematic effects, I love the screenplay, I love the view, in short I love everything. The video is all about the light of torch who has been a party of Ninoy and Cory’s fight for light and freedom and I salute those people who is in charge of the production, from the producers to the director. Two Thumbs up!