Topics: Unit testing PHP, test images for color-blindness, hands-on learning, RSS on Github, myths of software development.
NOTE: I’m moving the posting day/time for the weekly roundup to Monday morning. Hopefully that will make it a little more visible as well as giving me the weekend to wrap up the content.
I’m going to try something new, in an effort to both share things I find out about and write more. Each week I’ll compile a list of cool and/or useful tools, information, tips, etc. and post them here each Friday:
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 I’ve been spending the last several weeks fixing bugs and otherwise cleaning up code in one of our most mission critical applications. The work was originally done by a developer focused more on completing tasks as quickly as possible than understanding and writing stable, solid code.
Crockford shares a lot more than just the title of this post. I’m not sure I’m ready to completly buy into his assertion that Javascript will lead us to the holy grail, but he makes lots of really good points worth thinking about – regardless of your age or when you started programming.
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