About Codebloat

Codebloat is a collaboration by three students/developers/geeks in Oslo, Norway. It is a blog regularly updated electronic collection of articles, usually related in some way to technology, software development and computer science. We try to publish a new article at least every week, usually Friday morning.

The name Codebloat refers to several phenomena that can occur in software systems. From Wikipedia:

Code bloat is the production of code that is perceived as unnecessarily long, slow, or otherwise wasteful of resources. Code bloat can be caused by inadequacies in the language in which the code is written, inadequacies in the compiler used to compile the code, or by a programmer. Therefore, code bloat generally refers to source code size (as produced by the programmer), but sometimes is used to refer instead to the generated code size or even the binary file size.

Although technically a separate phenomenon, we also associate featuritis with code bloat, as featuritis can quickly lead to code bloat. The name Codebloat came to Lars’ mind in a short moment of serendipity, and was quickly agreed upon. We like the name because it is a widely known among developers, because it doesn’t have any other products or sites associated with it (that we know about) and because code is central to this site. You could almost say our articles are bloated with code.

The Authors

Ståle is currently on the second year of his mathematics and computer science studies at the University of Oslo. His main software related interests are security, software design and architecture.

Lars is working as Lead Developer at Mynt Betalingsterminaler, where he writes software that moves money around. He’s leading a team of developers using lean methodologies. Beside working, Lars is studying computer science at the University of Oslo. His main interests are software development in general, best practices and productivity. He is @lstor on twitter.

Håkon is working on his Master’s degree in mathematics at the University of Oslo. His main theoretical interests are category theory, type theory and programming language design. But he also enjoys more down to earth activities such as programming, photography and hiking.