- Don't "Enron" Your Software Project
- Oct 10, 2009
- Aaron Erickson begins a new series on technical finance with a discussion of how technical debt, technical 'off-balance sheet entities,' and technical fraud undermine return on investment.
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- Robert C. Martin's Clean Code Tip #12: Eliminate Boolean Arguments
- Aug 25, 2009
- We join "The Craftsman," Robert C. Martin's series on an interstellar spacecraft where programmers hone their coding skills. In this twelfth tip in the series, the crew learns that Boolean arguments loudly declare that the function does more than one thing. They are confusing and should be eliminated.
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- Robert C. Martin's Clean Code Tip of the Week #11: Output Arguments are Counterintuitive
- Jul 28, 2009
- We join "The Craftsman," Robert C. Martin's series on an interstellar spacecraft where programmers hone their coding skills. In this eleventh tip in the series, the crew learns that if your function must change the state of something, have it change the state of the object it is called on.
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- Robert C. Martin's Clean Code Tip of the Week #10: Avoid Too Many Arguments
- Jul 6, 2009
- We join "The Craftsman," Robert C. Martin's series on an interstellar spacecraft where programmers hone their coding skills. In this tenth tip in the series, the crew learns that functions should have a small number of arguments.
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- Robert C. Martin's Clean Code Tip of the Week #9: One Step Test
- Jun 12, 2009
- We join "The Craftsman," Robert C. Martin's series on an interstellar spacecraft where programmers hone their coding skills. In this ninth tip in the series, the crew learns that being able to run all the unit tests with just one command is imperative.
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- Robert C. Martin's Clean Code Tip of the Week #8: Your Build Shouldn't Require More Than One Step
- May 16, 2009
- We join "The Craftsman," Robert C. Martin's series on an interstellar spacecraft where programmers hone their coding skills. In this eighth tip in the series, the crewmen learn that building a project should be a single trivial operation.
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- Robert C. Martin's Clean Code Tip of the Week #7: Clean up Old Commented Out Code
- Mar 30, 2009
- Robert C. Martin explains why old commented-out code is an abomination.
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- Robert C. Martin's Clean Code Tip of the Week #6: Avoid Poorly Written Comments
- Feb 27, 2009
- We join "The Craftsman," Robert C. Martin's series on an interstellar spacecraft where programmers hone their coding skills. In this sixth tip in the series, the crewmen try to interpret a poorly worded comment.
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- Robert C. Martin's Clean Code Tip of the Week #5: Avoid Redundant Comments
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- Feb 18, 2009
- In this fifth tip in the series, the programmers discuss redundant comments, which describes something that adequately describes itself.
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- Robert C. Martin's Clean Code Tip of the Week #4: Avoid Obsolete Comments
- Feb 11, 2009
- A comment that has gotten old, irrelevant, and incorrect is obsolete. Obsolete comments tend to migrate away from the code they once described and become floating islands of irrelevance and misdirection.
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- Robert C. Martin's Clean Code Tip of the Week #2: The Inverse Scope Law of Function Names
- Jan 21, 2009
- The longer the scope of a function, the shorter its name should be.
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- Robert C. Martin’s Clean Code Tip of the Week #1: An Accidental Doppelgänger in Ruby
- Jan 7, 2009
- Robert C. Martin investigates an interesting dilemma: if the implementation of two functions is identical, yet their intent is completely different, is it still duplicate code?
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- UI Responsiveness: Instantaneous, Immediate, Continuous, Captive
- Dec 8, 2008
- When you're coding a website do you take into account how your solution will expend the user’s time?
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- What Is Clean Code?
- Aug 19, 2008
- Robert C. Martin introduces his book, Clean Code, and polls experienced programmers -- including Bjarne Stroustrup, Grady Booch, Dave Thomas, and Ward Cunningham -- on what their definition of "Clean Code" is.
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- Creating Breakthrough Products Through Collaborative Play: How "Buy a Feature" Works
- Aug 4, 2008
- Imrprove the quality of your product features by asking your customers to help you pick them.
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- The Value of Harmonizing Multiple Improvement Technologies: A Process Improvement Professional’s View
- Jul 1, 2008
- Learn the benefits of a harmonized approach when implementing more than one improvement model, standard, or other technology.
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- What Is the CMMI Concept?
- May 5, 2008
- This chapter is a good introduction to CMMI's scope and usefulness.
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- The Nature of Software Development
- Mar 7, 2008
- In order to be a good software developer, you need to investigate the nature of what you're doing.
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- Integrating the CMMI and Six Sigma: Strategies
- Feb 8, 2008
- Here are some strategic approaches to the joint implementation of the CMMI and Six Sigma.
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- Using Questions to Design Software Test Plans
- Jan 11, 2008
- Good questions can help you develop ideas and build stronger test plans.
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