Most developers (and certainly professional shops) working with software- or webdevelopment has understood the ideas behind sourcecode version management – no matter if they choose to use cvs, subversion, git or any of the other fine systems available. How developers use these systems, can provide an easy insight into who is the dummy, the average [...]
Archive for category Flows
So it been awhile since I sort of promised some tips on developing web applications fast. This post contains my five generic tips, which may apply to you (but then again – your mileage may vary). I’ve tried to abstract the advice and not stick to PHP development here, though it’s by far the world [...]
Your mileage may vary
Nov 9
It’s always fun to read articles with tips and tricks by other developers and see how they figure “best practices” are handled. Most developers do seem to thing they observations and practices are easily adopted by anyone, and should be accepted without any argumentation or reasoning behind the advice.
One of the nice examples of this, [...]
Code archeology
Oct 28
I’ve been spending quite some time the past days digging around in old code (3+ years old with no or very little changes). It’s quite fun noticing what efforts pay off and which doesn’t when you go back to make chance to old stuff. I’m sure my observations aren’t generally applicable. We’re web developers and [...]
It seems many developers get stuck in the same systems maintaining the same code for years and years. While it may be a common phenomenon there are a few things you can do as a developer to avoid being trapped in your own code forever.
First make things readable.
While your brain may be wired to a [...]