Code awareness levels

Writing code is all about working at multiple levels of abstraction concurrently. But as well as working at multiple levels…

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Longevity of Source Code

Take a look at the code you work in day-to-day. How long has it been there? How old is it?…

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Old Age Code

Is your code ready for retirement? Is it suffering from the diseases of old age? Do you have code you can’t…

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Cutting Corners

The pressure to deliver yesterday is strong. If it’s not customers nagging you, it’s project managers breathing down your neck…

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Git stash driven development

I’ve found myself using a pattern quite often recently, which I’ve been calling “git stash driven development” – that is, relying…

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VW’s rogue software developers

So Michael Horn has thrown a couple of software developers under the proverbial bus by blaming them for the defeat…

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Your DI framework is killing your code

I read a really interesting post recently looking at the difference between typical OO code and a more functional style. There’s a…

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Two people coding is twice as productive, right?

Stands to reason, doesn’t it? If one person can make 5 widgets an hour, then two people can make 10 widgets an…

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Dogma Driven Development

We really are an arrogant, opinionated bunch, aren’t we? We work in an industry where there aren’t any right answers.…

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