Development Practices

Reasonable-looking code can hide translation debt and cause great sadness when the team can least afford it. If you spend the time to write some nice tooling for pseudo-translation

Best Practices for Dev. Project Resurrection

Taking over a project that has been archived for a few years can be daunting. Here are key practices and tools to help you maintain sanity (and budget).

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Sticky Documentation, Part 2: Source Control History as Documentation

How to make the most of documentation that "sticks" close to an application through its lifecycle—source control history.

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Sticky Documentation, Part 1: Code as Documentation

How to make the most of the documentation that "sticks" closest to an application through its lifecycle—the code itself.

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Using Reflection to Test Complex Objects

Testing large, complicated Java objects can be done with reflection instead of by writing lots of redundant and error-prone tests.

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What Does Good Code Look Like?

Four qualities I prioritize when evaluating whether I'm reading good code.

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Intro to Refactoring: Making Code Easy to Understand in 4 Steps

At some point, someone (possibly even you) will wonder, "What in the heck does this piece of code do?" Refactoring can make their job infinitely easier.

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Keeping it Simple… Again and Again

Overly-complex code is hard to change and understand. Pay down on your sanity via simplification and sustainable practices. You won't regret the investment!

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