Editorial Note: I originally wrote this post for the SmartBear blog. You can check out the original here, at their site. If you’re a software developer, there’s a decent chance you’ve been embroiled in the debate over integrated development environments (IDEs) versus text editors. Users of IDEs will tell you that they facilitate productivity to a…
This week, I’m making it two in a row with a reader question. Today’s question is about an internal company framework and how to survive it. Well, it’s actually about how to work effectively with it, but the options there are sort of limited to “get in there and fix it yourself” and “other” when…
Today, I’m going to answer a reader question that asks for my opinion on a blog post from medium. In it, the other talks about what he calls “maintainable code,” but what I actually think of as “common code.” Before I get started talking about these terms and the difference, however, consider the actual reader…
Don’t look now, but I’m pretty sure this makes three weeks in a row of doing at least 1 reader question per week. Today, I’m going to tackle a question I received: is programming art? Here is the actual text of the question. It’s a well-written consideration that cites two parallels: painting and writing. This…
Editorial Note: this post was originally written for the SmartBear blog. You can read the original here, on their site. As I’ve mentioned before, they have some good authors that I respect writing over there, so give it a look! I’ve made stops in a lot of software development shops in my career, both as…
