Patterns and Practices
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Patterns and Practices
When building a team, as I am now, I think it's very important to manage the culture of the team so that it can be as productive as possible. Over the years, having experienced different types of teams in various cultures I have mentally put together a list of attitudes and ideas that I think are beneficial to a development team. I figured I'd share them here. I'm going to call it my development creedo.
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I <your name> am a developer.
I understand that the reason I exist is to serve the needs of the users. I will take user requirements seriously...
Over the holiday, it's important in our tech world to keep a good perspective on the little things in our developer jobs that make our lives a whole lot easier and are relatively underappreciated:
Relational Databases- Can you imagine the pain of trying to keep your data valid without automatic relational enforcements? If you're like me and have had to fix systems that didn't use proper constraints, you know what i'm talking about.
Garbage Collection, Transactions, and other things that make me not have to worry (so much) about cleaning up after myself, leaving me to focus on the business value code.
Compiler...