Software Development
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Atom, Hackable Text Editor By GitHub
GitHub has recently announced its new text editor – Atom. It claimed it would be a 21st century text editor…
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The Test Waste Ratio
Remember the days when bugs were just part of life? I mean a big part. If you recall those dark…
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Are comments always wrong?
A colleague asked me recently: Why aren’t developers writing comments any more? He’d been looking through some code his team…
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Logging or debugging
Debugging is lame. You should debug log. If your code is structured you do not need debug logging. These are…
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IDE vs. Editor
Are you using an IDE, or an editor? Are you a “hardcore” programmer, or you are one of those sissy…
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How to Eliminate Bugs Through High Cohesion
Intuition tells us that methods like these ones suffer from a distinct code smell: …
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Using the AutoValue Code Generator in Eclipse
My colleague Moritz of EclipseSource recently came across Google Auto, a collection of Java code generators. AutoValue is one of…
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Apache Cassandra steaming through 2.1 Release
Apache Cassandra is a high performance database system used in an ever growing number of enterprise companies to whom scalability…
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Why shouldn’t I test private methods?
Newcomers to TDD ask some interesting questions, here’s one I was asked recently: testing private methods is bad, but why? How…
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