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Need to Debug a Legacy App? Throw an Exception

Make debugging a legacy app less of a chore by throwing an exception–it's cheap, quick, and easy.

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Jumping back into an older dev. project can be easy, or it can be a pain in the neck. Here's how to make it a joy.

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Design-first means thinking through how you want to handle visual design at the very beginning of the mobile app development process.

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Comparing two Agile workflows for managing multiple releases in a production application: Release Branches vs. Feature Flags

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Branching out into unfamiliar paradigms is a great source of new ideas and patterns to write better software.

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Some tips for handling critical bugs, plus an email template for discussing them with your client.

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The longer I practice TDD, the more I realize how foolish my instincts actually were.

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Why you should never "npm install -g" a Node.js package when a project-local install will do.

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It may take a little longer to write documentation with non-developers in mind, but it could save your team a lot of time down the road.

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How to use property-based testing to verify version compatibility for serialized data structures. In particular, use of C#'s DataContract.

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How complex of a system can you test with property-based testing? More complex than you'd think (but not unlimited).

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Any large application is at significant, long-term risk without system testing to make sure all its pieces are working together properly.