Am I enough?
As a developer, when I’m coding, I keep asking myself questions like “Am I a good enough developer?”, “Is my code good enough?”, “Am I productive enough?”. Are these valid questions?
As a developer, when I’m coding, I keep asking myself questions like “Am I a good enough developer?”, “Is my code good enough?”, “Am I productive enough?”. Are these valid questions?
You’re constantly short on time, forever exhausted and you promise yourself that as soon as you finish that next “thing”, you’ll get a handle on this out-of-control hamster wheel. Except next week is the same.
The next time you find yourself looking for an issue in code, which type of searcher will you be?
Empathy is an important technical skill that can drive the decisions developers make when they code. How can we make the practice of applying empathy throughout a codebase concrete? It starts with defining the practice.
Once upon a time, there was a small business looking for help to modernize their existing software...
This past year has been rough in a lot of ways, but we were lucky enough to be able to share our core values with the world while socially distancing.
As developers, we often get requests for new features that may seem trivial at first glance, but become much more complex when we start to dig deeper. This is a story of one such example, and how we were able to work with our client to provide a more inclusive design.
I recently helped a client incrementally migrate a customer-facing portal from Struts to Spring Boot. As part of the migration, we needed to consolidate five Git repositories into one. While completing the consolidation, we developed a number of scripts to follow to ensure that the change history for each repository was maintained and accessible.
Legacy code is everywhere, and it's here to stay. Anything that someone else has left behind is their legacy. After a while, what they left behind might not play nicely with new code. Several key issues can come from legacy codebases, ranging from alarming security vulnerabilities to frequent bugs and plummeting developer productivity.
Nintendo started out producing handmade playing cards. Netflix was selling and renting DVDs by mail. Starbucks used to only sell high-quality coffee beans and equipment (no brewed coffee or delicious handcrafted espresso drinks!).