The Art of Harvesting Abstraction
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Often I watch senior developers so hell-bent on preventing DRY through code abstractions, that they fall victim to the YAGNI principle. By being proactive you are opening yourself to wasting time creating abstractions that may never be needed or worse adding unwanted noise to your code.
Refactoring to abstractions should be a reactive response […]
Meetings vs Cell Phones
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This is a reader guest post by Jeremy Neuharth. Jeremy is a .NET software engineer with State Bank and Trust and enjoys learning and assisting teams in implementing release management and continuous integration.
As a fellow tech geek I always enjoy new gadgets and various other electronic toys that I can spend money on and […]
Taking The Week Off…
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Just letting everyone know that I am taking the week off from blogging. I have some fun and interesting things coming down the pipe for codesqueeze but in order to do so something has to give.
Stay tuned and hopefully later this week I can squeeze some posts in…
Is ALT.NET Becoming Incestuous?
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Don’t get me wrong, I love the ALT.NET guys, but is the ALT.NET email group a blessing or a burden?
On pace of ~200 messages a day, it appears outside conversation is disappearing in the blogosphere. Where are the weekly rants of Bellware? Where are Laribee’s anecdotes? Others seem to have abandon their […]
Concentrated Codesqueeze: November2007
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This month we saw the end of the Codesqueeze Awards and the beginning of the new job boards. For a final goodbye to November, here is this months concentrated codesqueeze links.
Readers Choice:
How To Sell Agile To Fixed Bid Contract Clients
Don’t Unit Test? Start Counting Your “Oh Shits!”
The 7 Software “-ilities” You Need To Know
The […]
7 Things Developers Can Learn From Jason Bourne
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After watching the final installment of the Bourne series, I noticed some attributes that Jason Bourne displayed. He is fast, he is strong, and if he was a software developer here are the rules he would live by:
1. Always be ultra aware
First, developers often are not aware of office politics. They crawl into […]
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