When are you done writing a piece of code? Is it when you have implemented the necessary functionality? When you have tested it? I believe there is more to professional-quality code than just getting it to function properly. What else is there? Making sure the code is maintainable – well designed and understandable. I use [...]
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As a software developer what practices do you consider essential? Which practices are must-haves that you would refuse to build software without? I believe that producing good software is hard, and that we software developers need all the help we can get in developing software. I have put together a list of the top five [...]
I stared at my code on the screen, but inspiration wouldn’t come. I was trying to design a new feature which shared some commonalities with the existing code base. In particular, there were a couple classes that I knew I could reuse. I just wasn’t sure how they would have to be modified because I [...]
