Medicine was very different in the early 1900’s. It was challenging to find cadavers, so Surgeons got all their practice on pigs before they ever touched a live human for surgery. This is where we are with development: we program on pigs and then deploy to humans.
What I Wish I Knew When Starting Out as a Software Developer: Slow the Fuck DownThe other day I read What I Wish I Knew When I Started My Career as a Software Developer, an article in Lifehacker adapted from a Quora answer by Michael O. Church. I haven't stopped thinking about it since.
We Are Gonna Need ItThere was a time (not so long ago) when we designed everything before we wrote any code. We gathered the requirements of our application and wrote the requirement specification. We took these requirements and designed an architecture that helped us to fulfill them.
Whitespace, you're doing it wrong.Received wisdom tells us that choice of formatting styles is a purely subjective choice. The same as choosing a coffee blend, or finding the best way to paint your bikeshed.
Why I write horrible code. (And so can you!)One of my favorite tips for writing software comes from one of my favorite software role models, Sandi Metz.
Awesome Grid Crud DemoArchitecture of a Database System – Hellerstein, Stonebraker & Hamilton, 2007. This is a longer read (and hence a slightly longer write-up too) coming in at 119 pages, but it’s written in a very easy style so the pages fly by.
Try Akka.NET now!Follow our tutorial and build your first Akka.NET application today. Akka.NET is a toolkit and runtime for building highly concurrent, distributed, and fault-tolerant event-driven applications on .NET and Mono.
Akka.NETAnd most impressively, Roger was interviewed about Akka.NET on .NET Rocks! . The .NET community embraced Akka.NET in 2014, and we're going to work together as a developer community to make it even bigger in 2015.
This Read-It-Later-list is just that, bookmarks of stuff I intend to read or have read. I do not necessarily agree with opinions or statements in the bookmarked articles.
This list is compiled from my Pocket list.