The only reason that I am not overawed by the depth of knowledge and sound advice in Code Complete, Second Edition (Steve McConnell, ISBN: 0-7356-1967-0) is that I bought the second edition because the first edition was so good.
Archive for August, 2007
Code Complete, Second Edition
Wednesday, August 29th, 2007Buying maple syrup in the fishmongers
Friday, August 17th, 2007In Montréal for Extreme Markup 2007, I went to Marché Atwater to buy some maple syrup. When I wanted to know the weight of a pack of 8 cans of syrup, the syrup seller took me and the 8-pack next door to the fishmongers, and the fishmonger put the cans on her scale. She even set the price to $2.20/kg so I could see the weight in pounds if I’d wanted.
Since it was at that point I agreed to make the purchase, I’d say I did buy the maple syrup in the fishmongers.