Programmers and the Amazon Have This in Common

Tim Broyles Articles, Programming 1 Comment

Attention: This article was published over 13 years ago, and the information provided may be aged or outdated. While some topics are evergreen, technology moves fast, so please keep that in mind as you read the post.Have you ever been stuck on a problem, some seemingly un-explainable production malfunction in the code? You’ve stepped though it with the debugger, run enumerable …

Lessons From The Weight Room

Robert Rice Articles, Programming 1 Comment

Attention: This article was published over 14 years ago, and the information provided may be aged or outdated. While some topics are evergreen, technology moves fast, so please keep that in mind as you read the post.A friend of my wife’s (an artist and librarian) has recently started “learning programming” through a free online course that rations its information out …

Test-Driven Development

Josh McKinzie Articles, Development Technologies & Tools, Project Management, Testing 3 Comments

Attention: This article was published over 14 years ago, and the information provided may be aged or outdated. While some topics are evergreen, technology moves fast, so please keep that in mind as you read the post.We all will agree that having good tests to exercise and validate a developer’s code is a good thing. Unfortunately, so often, writing unit …