The world of programming is always changing. And changing FAST at that. We are constantly finding better ways to do what it is that we do. That is a great thing. Iteration is a very powerful concept. However, there are a few ideas and constructs in the computer science world that remain constant. Data structures and their…
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A couple weeks ago I wrote a post about unit testing and its importance in developing quality software. You can find that here. A topic that is seen a lot when discussing unit testing is the idea of “mocking” objects (I’ll explain this in a second). I didn’t go into this in my unit testing post…
Throughout my career (and life) I’ve been on many different teams. Obviously, this implies that I’ve been a teammate to others and had many teammates of my own. I bring this up because yesterday I had an interaction with a current teammate of mine that made me think “Wow, what a great person to work with.”…
SPOILER ALERT: Yes. Code without tests is such an old idea that in his book “Working Effectively with Legacy Code” (written in 2004!) Michael Feather defines “Legacy Code” as code that is not accompanied by unit tests. This should be common knowledge by now in the software community, but I still am running into developers…
If you know me personally, you know that I love to read. It started in grade school where the elementary school I attended offered points and prizes for those who read (and passed tests on) the most books every month. I remember I graduated with the 3rd most points in the history of the program (something…
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Great software engineers are many things, but when I am hiring developers, what I want them to be more than anything else is excellent learners. This is because the one constant in this technical field is “change”. Think you know a framework or a language or technology stack? Guess what? A new version was released yesterday that…
Not a day goes by anymore where you don’t hear someone mention “The Cloud” in some context. Cloud services and solutions are all the rage these days. Why though? What do these solutions offer to businesses that they don’t already have?What are the advantages of “The Cloud”? Well, as it turns out, there are many. Below…
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