Articles tagged “featured”

• Comments classification This is a bad com­ment: int i = 0; i + 1; // adding 1 to i should work but dont work i dont know why!!!! print(i);For every good com­ment, I've seen hun­dreds of bad com­ments. They harm the code base and give the wrong im­pres­sion to the au­thor that he…
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• Trial-screens setup: the definitive guide You got your sec­ond mon­i­tor. You've seen how much it en­hances (or de­grades) your pro­duc­tiv­i­ty. Now, you are dream­ing of hav­ing three mon­i­tors. Or maybe you don't have dual-screens set­up and you're jump­ing straight to three mon­i­tors set­up. Or maybe…
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• Visual management I dis­cov­ered [Vi­su­al man­age­ment blog][1] in 2013. Al­though I al­ready heard about Kent Beck's Big Vis­i­ble Chart, I've nev­er ac­tu­al­ly seen vi­su­al man­age­ment in prac­tice be­fore. For me, tick­ets went straight to Fog­Bugz or TFS and re­mained there,…
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• Google Search is great, or why should your internal documentation be public Re­cent­ly, I an­swered a ques­tion on Pro­gram­mers.SE about doc­u­men­ta­tion tools such as Con­flu­ence for the in­ter­nal doc­u­men­ta­tion of the pro­ject. My an­swer was bad­ly writ­ten and I had no enough time or in­ter­est to rewrite it cor­rect­ly, so I re­moved it.…
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• Topography of tests Im­por­tant note: this ar­ti­cle is writ­ten for de­vel­op­ers who don't prac­tice TDD, that is more than 99% of de­vel­op­ers I know. TDD is a very dif­fer­ent world, and a few as­ser­tions I make in this ar­ti­cle don't ap­ply there. For in­stance, my skep­ti­cism…
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• Expensive projects are really cool Fol­low­ing my pre­vi­ous ar­ti­cle, a col­league told me a sim­i­lar but much more im­pres­sive sto­ry which hap­pened to him. Since he doesn't en­joy writ­ing too much, he in­vit­ed me to tell the sto­ry here. Six years ago, Nico­las was hired as a free­lance…
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• The greatness of TDD illustrated Dur­ing an in­ter­view, I was asked to solve the fol­low­ing prob­lem: A val­i­da­tion func­tion takes as in­put a string con­tain­ing paren­the­sis and square brack­ets. It should re­turn true if the clos­ing paren­the­sis and brack­ets are match­ing the open­ing ones, or…
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• Tricky, tricky dates Any pro­gram­mer who worked with dates would tell that dates are a com­plex sub­ject. Time zones, UTC, day­light sav­ing time, leap years, and, my fa­vorite of all—leap sec­onds that “are not en­tire­ly…
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