Act Like a Senior Developer – About Clean Code
How to make your code dirty, how to avoid it?
How to make your code dirty, how to avoid it?
Model Driven Development, why should you use it? This article gives 15 reasons why you should start using Model Driven Development.
In my professional live I mostly work with enterprise web applications which are quite demanding for big layer of business logic (that’s another article I guess) and decoupling of application layers. During this year I invested quite a lot for a search of a good ways to architecture a big application and make it simply good. Quite a while ago Matthew Weier O’Phinney introduced service layer in one of his great talks about models, since then service layer become one of the key architectural component one my applications. Here I’m going to show a few examples and use cases where it’s very useful.
I have been inspired by a post by Soon Hui to write about my mistakes. I have evolved much on the programming side during these years, but my biggest mistakes have been social and economic: dealing with other people. Thus, I have collect a list of my errors committed as a php freelance developer.
For those that are new to Code Justin, The blog is meant to be a place for developers to share their thoughts and also a place for myself to share my projects/ideas. Previous to the blog being hacked it was getting a steady amount of traffic and was receiving a good amount of comments. The blog was helping newer programmers with all the useful advice from the comments. I want to get Code Justin right back on track and begin building up an active community again! If you’re curious to know a little bit more about myself, I just turned 19 and I’m an editor/moderator for DZone (a popular developer site). I love to program and I hope to one day make a living out of it. Right now I freelance on the side and I’m also developing my first commercial product.
A little shout out to some unsung heroes in the Ruby community.
A few nights ago, it was Joe's turn for night duty. Joe (not his real name) is a good developer who can be counted on to move one, sometimes two tickets from waiting, through in progress, to done every day. There were no production problems that night, so Joe could work on his development tasks. How many tickets did Joe finish that night? Five. Do interruptions cost us 2/3rds of our potential?
In an ideal world, each big subject from the software development process would be handed to a specialized professional: UI designers, programmers, architects, database administrators etc. Unfortunately, this is not the case most of times. There a plenty of cases out there where projects suffer from lack of proper expertise and well trained people
How would you improve IE9? SitePoint provide a top 5 wish list and invite you to add your own improvement requests.
How do you find out if you made enough as a freelancer after the job was completed?