Development Practices

Most Recent

Don’t Fear the Standards – They’re There for a Reason

Technical standards can be a bit intimidating, but there's no reason to fear them. They can be some of the most valuable documentation at your disposal.

Development Practices

3 Tips for Being a Helpful, Gracious Code Reviewer

Code reviews are boring, yet they're extremely valuable. Here are three ways to improve your code review communication and your own development skills.

Development Practices

Your Codebase Is a Garden – 5 Essential Code Maintenance Practices

Just like a growing office plant, a software project needs constant maintenance to stay healthy.

Development Practices

4 Tips for Improving Test Quality

These 4 test driven development tips will make your tests easier to write and easier to maintain.

Development Practices

4 Pitfalls of Developing with APIs

If you are the first or sole consumer of an API or some data outside of your organization, you can very easily run into trouble.

Development Practices

The Value of Code Review – Why, When, & How

Formal code review doesn't cost much, but it can greatly increase the quality of code in your project.

Development Practices

Developing on the Bleeding Edge

Bleeding edge software dev is an amazing and scary place to be. But it's a significantly better place when you immerse yourself in the code and community.

Development Practices

3 Benefits of Fake APIs

Fake APIs have been enormously helpful — opening lines of communication, allowing for parallelization, and exposing problems in their early stages.

Development Practices

Framework Docs Are a First-Class Citizen

Documenting your framework code is crucial to its success. I recommend Documentation Driven Development (DDD).

Development Practices

7 Ways to Reduce Developer Friction on Embedded Projects

If you want something to get done, make it easy. Reducing friction at the start of a project saves time in the long run and makes it easier to do the right thing.

Development Practices

A Beginning Developer’s Experience With TDD

TDD helps me understand what my code is doing, encourages me to learn new testing frameworks, helps me learn new languages, and helps me to be fearless.

Development Practices

Test Driven Development: Resistance Is… Perplexing?

If you're resisting the switch to TDD, here are a few reasons to take another look: It's faster (no kidding!), higher quality, and far more flexible.

Development Practices

Development category

Other Categories

Keep up with our latest posts.