What is the purpose of this code?
There are only two hard problems in Computer Science: cache invalidation and naming things. - Phil Karlton We name and name and name. We name…
Who do you write the code for?
You can probably come up with a bunch of answers: the computer, the client, the cloud, the company... But first and foremost you write code…
Feeling stuck? Getting past the programming blockade.
The production system broke last Tuesday... I got a phone call last Tuesday around 8 pm. The operator told me a daily task broke in the…
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Jump Start into Java Learning Path
Last Sunday I've talked to a friend. She just recently picked up Java. We're about to start a learning experiment: she is going to learn how…
What should you know about a human side of code review?
Imagine yourself sitting in front of a compiler, tasked with fixing a small bug. But you know that as soon as you say "I'm finished,"…
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Rockstar with a cardboard on the screen
We, software engineers, tend to be protective of our work. We get anxious about showing our code. Unfortunately, the wall we build around "our" code is a perfect formula for a disaster. Luckily, doing the things that scare us more often makes them less scary.
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