Tag «development»

Correctness is more important than performance

Every developer should listen to Hanselminutes #396 Bugs Considered Harmful with Douglas Crockford Especially new software developers. I, too, have observed the trend Crockford mentions: The ignorance of what has come before and the whys of our industry. The obsession with Cool New Shiny and Faster-faster-faster! The latter is especially in my mind recently as …

Using Github

This blog post was written specifically for my co-workers at Washington State community and technical colleges, but I suspect will be useful to anyone getting started with Github, so I am posting it here. This post is Copyright (c) 2013, Bellevue College and the State of Washington. First, some definitions Git A software tool for …