Software Development
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Lines of Code is a Bad Metric, Either Way
The Dropbox team had a post explaining their decision to use CoffeeScript instead of JavaScript and, in particular, re-writing their…
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How design for testability can improve test automation capability
Introduction Testability refers to the capability of testing something. When this something is an IT solution, the most suited way…
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Git configuration options you can’t miss
Whenever I start using a new machine for development these are the first options I setup. …
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Automated Tests as Documentation
One of the arguments for writing automated tests is that tests can act as useful documentation for a system. But…
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Not an Expert in All Levels of Abstraction
Programming is not just writing code – it is working with a huge pile of abstractions. Starting from zeroes and…
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Choosing between a Pen Test and a Secure Code Review
Secure Code Reviews (bringing someone in from outside of the team to review/audit the code for security vulnerabilities) and application…
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Software Quality via Unit Testing
The following post is based on a talk I gave at Desert Code Camp 2013. See also the associated slide…
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10 Productivity tips for software developers
After attending a few seminars on the topic of productivity and time management and reading a couple of books on…
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Simple vs. Easy: Writing A Generic Code To Avoid Duplication (Representation of Data To Import)
In our batch jobs for data import we had many similar classes for holding the data being imported. Technically they…
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