John C. Dvorak, the legendary PC Magazine columnist, recently wrote a column about open source software (from the angle of Sun/Oracle and open source licensing). In it, he called PostgreSQL a MySQL killer – and every time misspelled it as PostgrSQL.

Come on, John, it’s not like PostgrSQL accidentally came up in your spell check… [...]

I just wrote a line of code, then added a comment before it.

//these tests don’t bubble up, so…
test.Reset();

Then I thought, “Why am I commenting that? Isn’t the code’s intent explicit enough?” It is quite clear what the code is doing (resetting a test). However, the comment is necessary to give some insight into the business [...]