Clean Code
Splitting Code #1
First in a series where we take good code and make it better, by following Clean Coding practices.
Code Quality
Use Guides to Help You Communicate Clearly to Others
Guides are documents that contain answers to questions you will encounter while you develop your applications. Some of those questions will be what should I use to prompt a user for input, and others suggest what is the best way Read more…
Code Quality
TODO’s Should Not Live in Source
TODOs do not belong in the source code they get lost and forgotten. I was recently reminded of this when I had gone through some code to remove some code quality issues, that when resolved revealed that there was a Read more…
Code Tip
Be Aware of Unicode
A developer I work with had recently learned the lesson of what you see is not necessarily what you get. He had been troubleshooting some SQL to execute as part of automation script, and it kept failing. Everything looked correct, Read more…
Code Quality
One Brick at a Time
This weeks tip ties with the previous one: Drawing the Line, take one step at a time. Just like a bricklayer places one brick at a time to build a wall, you need to take on one code quality step at Read more…
Code Quality
You Must Draw the Line
The chances are good that you have heard the phrase “Draw the line in the sand.” This line is the point you will not pass as to prevent worsening a situation. When dealing with code quality and craft, you will Read more…
Code Quality
Use The Tools Luke
In the earlier days of computer programming, where punch cards were used to store our applications, there were a variety of ways to keep your code in order. One such method was to draw an arrow on the side of Read more…
Code Quality
Improvement Made By Practice
For the past three months, I have been sharing code quality tips within my place of work in the hopes to help improve code deliverables. I am now moving the location of the repository to my blog in hopes that Read more…
Code Quality
Working With the End in Mind
Working with the end in mind is a habit made famous by Steven Covey‘s 7 Habits of Effective People. This principle states that you first need to have the end goal defined, then you build up steps to get Read more…
DevOps
LaunchDarkly Review
Within DevOps, one way to enable more frequent feature updates to clients is to use the method of dark launching. Dark launching is the process of pushing code to production that disabled off, so users use an in-progress feature. Being able Read more…