Software Development
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KISS My YAGNI
We are all familiar with the KISS (Keep It Simple, Stupid) and YAGNI (You Ain’t Gonna Need It) principles. And…
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Why is your software aging?
I recently stumbled upon a term software aging. My first thoughts on the subject were not too positive, especially after…
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What if every object was an array? No more NullPointerExceptions!
To NULL or not to NULL? Programming language designers inevitably have to decide whether they support NULLs or not. And…
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The Dark Side of Best Practices
Best practices are the backbone of software development (or so we are told). Every developer has his own opinions about…
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An argument against defaulting to auto-increment primary keys
The de-facto “easy” primary key for ages has been the auto-incrementing integer. Upon insertion of a new record, the database…
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10 Common Mistakes Java Developers Make when Writing SQL
Java developers mix object-oriented thinking with imperative thinking, depending on their levels of: Skill (anyone can code imperatively) Dogma (some…
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10 Reasons not to Choose a Particular Open Source software
We’re all Software Engineers of one type or another. Most of us have one thing in common, though: We’re lazy.…
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Sometimes TDD Requires a Hammer
While there are myriad mocking libraries available for the Java platform, only a select few of these nifty frameworks is…
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The Pokayoke Software Development Guide
Aaron Swartz has written up a guide for software development from idea to launch. He calls it “The Pokayoke Guide…
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