Coding

10 Rules for Formatting Your Code

The functionality that you create today has a good chance of changing in the next release, but the readability of your code will have a profound effect on all the changes that will ever be made. The coding style and readability set precedents that continue to affect…

Monthly Retro No. 2

Hello, August. And farewell, July. How your mid-summer glory came and went.

Building a Bomb-Ass Team

In college, I was super involved on-campus. One of my roles was being an advisory board member of a student-run…

Active Coding

Conventional wisdom says that once a project is in the coding phase, the work is mostly mechanical… We think this attitude is the single biggest reason that many programs are ugly, inefficient, poorly structured, unmaintainable, and just plain wrong.

- Andy Hunt and David…

Becoming a Great Developer

The day will come, probably not far from now, when some poor software guy will do some dumb thing and tens of thousands of people will die… and [the politicians of the world] will point their finger at us and they will ask the question, ‘How could you have let this happen?’

Coding in the Dark

Programming is a craft… You work small miracles every day.

- Andy Hunt and David Thomas, The Pragmatic Programmer

Coding Imperfectly (And Single-Responsibility Classes)

Design is more the art of preserving changeability than it is the act of achieving perfection.

- Sandi Metz, Practical Object-Oriented Design in Ruby, Chapter 2