97 Things Every Programmer Should Know

Collective Wisdom from the Experts 35 A prevalence of noisy comments and incorrect comments in a codebase encourages programmers ...

(^36) 97 Things Every Programmer Should Know Continuous Learning Clint Shank WE LiVE iN iNTERESTiNG TiMES. As development gets d ...

Collective Wisdom from the Experts 37 henever you make a mistake, fix a bug, or run into a problem, try to W really understand ...

(^38) 97 Things Every Programmer Should Know Convenience Is Not an -ility ........................ Gregor Hohpe MUCH HAS BEEN SA ...

Collective Wisdom from the Experts 39 the caller to have to make two separate calls” translated into “I didn’t want to code up t ...

(^40) 97 Things Every Programmer Should Know Deploy Early and Often Steve Berczuk DEBUGGiNG THE DEPLOYMENT AND iNSTALLATiON PROC ...

Collective Wisdom from the Experts 41 Putting deployment last means that the deployment process may need to be more complicated ...

(^42) 97 Things Every Programmer Should Know Distinguish Business Exceptions from Technical ........... Dan Bergh Johnsson THERE ...

Collective Wisdom from the Experts 43 A different, but still technical, situation is when the program cannot proceed because of ...

(^44) 97 Things Every Programmer Should Know Do Lots of Deliberate Practice....................... Jon Jagger DELiBERATE PRACTiC ...

Collective Wisdom from the Experts 45 The expertise arrives gradually over time—not all at once in the 10,000th hour! Neverthele ...

(^46) 97 Things Every Programmer Should Know Domain-Specific Languages ........................ Michael Hunger WHENEVER YOU LiST ...

Collective Wisdom from the Experts 47 External DSLs Are textual or graphical expressions of the language—although textual DSLs t ...

(^48) 97 Things Every Programmer Should Know Don’t Be Afraid to Break Things Mike Lewis EVERYONE WiTH iNDUSTRY ExPERiENCE has un ...

Collective Wisdom from the Experts 49 Redefine internal interfaces, restructure modules, refactor copy–pasted code, and simplify ...

(^50) 97 Things Every Programmer Should Know Don’t Be Cute with Your Test Data Rod Begbie It was getting late. I was throwing in ...

Collective Wisdom from the Experts 51 To appropriate the old saying that “a lie can travel halfway around the world while the tr ...

(^52) 97 Things Every Programmer Should Know Don’t Ignore That Error! ............................ Pete Goodliffe I was walking ...

Collective Wisdom from the Experts 53 calling the same function? Some platforms insulate you from pain here; others do not. Exc ...

(^54) 97 Things Every Programmer Should Know Don’t Just Learn the Language, Understand Its Culture ....... Anders Norås iN HiGH ...