Become an efficient web developer

Becoming a better developer requires continuous improvement and without the right habits and keys this could be a real struggle and can lead to discouragement and some of us can even give up on their dreams.

In this article, we will be discussing a few habits and keys that will help me to become an efficient web developer.

• What is efficiency ?

Efficiency is the key to this article, so what does it mean? “Achieving maximum productivity with minimum wasted effort or expense”. Knowing this definition could be the first step in the achievement of this goal. It’s mostly achieving tasks without wasting resources. In our case as developers, efficiency means doing things fast but this definition misses one key which is effectiveness. By combining the two keys we can say that “Efficiency is doing things right while effectiveness is doing the right things.”.

Therefore, doing things fast does not make any sense if we do not do them in the right way and do them in the right way without achieving the goal does not either. When things are done fast we get time to stop, take a look and make sure that we are going in the right way, so being efficient allows you to be more effective.

• What makes us efficient?

1. Minimize the interruptions by disabling all notifications: This will reduce our brain sensitivity to all the unexpected movements and we can always take time for notifications whenever we get time.

2. Pair programming: working in a pair allows you to have one between the two teammates to deal with interruptions while the other one keeps focused and preserves productivity.

3. Better sleep than multiple cups of coffee: We all know that the more we sleep, the more we have, the more we have a chance to be focused and even solve some of the errors or bugs we got last time than keep working without any rest. remember, we are all humans and humans need rest :-).

4. One thing at a time: when trying to do multiple tasks at a time, especially in web development, the quality of our work always suffers. By filtering your tasks and then trying to achieve them one at a time will increase strongly your productivity.

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