Development Practices

New team members should be able to jump in and run your project in 10 minutes, flat. So the next time you start a new project, write your Makefile first.

Sometimes time pressures require a shot-in-the-dark solution. But your codebase will be healthier if you understand the root cause of the issue.

It's really rewarding to get a chunk of code refactored, but it comes at a price; time spent refactoring is time you aren't developing features.

When system tests are written well, they can be a source of documentation and a tool to show others how the app should behave.

Well named variables are one of the most useful things you can do to build a maintainable and predictable codebases. They make code seem effortless.