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Regular Expressions Are Great… Sometimes

Before you apply regular expressions to every situation that looks like a string that needs parsing, you need to be aware of their limitations.
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What Shape is Your Project? – Tackling Software with a High “Complexity to Visibility” Ratio

What "shape" is your project? It's not overall complexity that matters. It’s the ratio of complexity of functionality to visibility into that functionality.
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Save Side Effects for Last

Why save side effects for last? It will make your code less buggy and easier to test (because it naturally guides you closer to functional programming).
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Debugging a Complex Problem? Think Like an Epidemiologist

It's hard to know what's really going on inside your body, so researchers use the Bradford Hill Criteria to explore problems. Developers can use it too.
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Today’s Code Is Tomorrow’s Legacy Project – Make It Easy to Resurrect

Getting legacy projects running again is never fun. Leave some breadcrumbs, and your colleagues & future self will thank you.
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WebDriver Testing Fun Times: When Threes Didn’t Exist

Checking the version of your software and the change log can lead to some very important discoveries. It might even lead you to the solution right away.

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Five Build Commands to Make Project Onboarding Faster & Easier

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.
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Six Strategies to Spend Less Time Debugging

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.
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How Do You Know When to Refactor Your Code?

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.
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Making Your System Tests More Readable

When system tests are written well, they can be a source of documentation and a tool to show others how the app should behave.
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Be Expressive: How to Give Your Variables Better Names

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.
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Using State Tables for Testing

Using state tables for testing is great for situations where there are a variety of inputs for a function that produce different results.
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