How to become a better developer in 30 days

There are numerous ways in which you can affect the correctness of the code you write as well as the capabilities of changing that code in the future. Unit testing, design patterns, and code reviews are all methodologies that have a decisive impact in how your software works. However, very few things have such a…

Software maintenance is traditionally thought as a process that will happen in the distant future, and will be needed only during bug fixing operations and to keep an existing piece of software current with new versions of a compiler or operating system. Maintenance is also viewed by many as an afterthought that doesn’t need to…

Here is a link to the source code for the book Objective-C Programmer’s Reference, published by Apress. All the explanation about how this code works is contained in the book. Similar Posts: Day 20: Spend More Time in Maintenance Mode Day 21: Design The Big Picture First Make it work first, then make it better Day 12: Keep the…

Writing short methods is one of the pieces of conventional wisdom that have been passed around as a form of agile technique. Many programers adhere to the use of short methods without thinking too much about it, while others disregard the idea altogether, more concerned with the practical activity of creating usable code. There is,…

Programmers that use the C and C++ languages have become used to the facility with which they can access low-level features such as memory management. The raw speed of the language is another point that makes it very hard to use other languages. On the other hand, most programming environments are nowadays organized according to…