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Write Debuggable Code! 28 Jun 2013 | 07:27 pm
“One of the differences between a great programmer and a bad programmer is that a great programmer adds logging and tools that make it easy to debug the program when things fail.” [reference below] I...
Declutter Your RSS Reader 2 Jan 2013 | 09:58 pm
Do you feel like your RSS reader is becoming overloaded? Noise-to-value ratio is too high? Then you are ready for this exercise! Read on. If you’re like me, you follow this cycle: I find somebody new...
Effective Programming: More Than Writing Code 19 Sep 2012 | 07:36 pm
Effective Programming: More Than Writing Code by Jeff Atwood ISBN B008HUMTO0 Date Read 9/2012 My Rating I’ve been following The Coding Horror blog for at least a few years. When I heard that the aut...
Fundamentals of programming 16 Nov 2011 | 04:33 am
Almost all of us know the GoF patterns. Perhaps not all of the patterns. I forget them from time to time, but with more experience, I remember more and more. (I keep forgetting what a Memento is. ) A...
Fundamentals of programming 15 Nov 2011 | 11:33 pm
Almost all of us know the GoF patterns. Perhaps not all of the patterns. I forget them from time to time, but with more experience, I remember more and more. (I keep forgetting what a Memento is. ) As...
Steve Jobs on Simplicity 7 Oct 2011 | 10:50 pm
focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it’s worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mount...
Steve Jobs on Simplicity 7 Oct 2011 | 06:50 pm
focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it’s worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mount...
Joining the TDD camp! 15 Jul 2011 | 10:05 am
I am a TDD fan. I’ve been one for a long time. But I’m not a TDD practitioner. I don’t follow the TDD methodology of writing the test first, implementation second. Not yet. Uncle Bob convinced me t...
The Top 10 Attributes of a Great Programmer 21 May 2011 | 01:33 am
While looking at the top weekly links on dzone (good way to see what are the important things that happened), I came across a very intriguing entry: The Top 10 Attributes of a Great Programmer by Stev...
The Boy Scout Rule 14 Mar 2011 | 10:03 pm
Uncle Bob in Clean Code states, “the Boy Scout Rule tells us we should leave the code cleaner than we found it.” Another words, when we make changes to the code base, we should make sure we are leavin...
