Code Review Best Practices
At my current company, we do a fair amount of code reviews. I had never done one before I started here so it was a new experience for me. I think it’s a good idea to crystalize some of the things I look for when I’m doing code reviews and talk about the best way I’ve found to approach them. Briefly, a code review is a discussion between two or more developers about changes to the code to address an issue. Many articles talk about the benefits of code reviews, including knowledge sharing, code quality, and developer growth.
Design pattern (computer science)
There are many types of design patterns, for instance Algorithm strategy patterns addressing concerns related to high-level strategies describing how to exploit application characteristics on a computing platform.Computational design patterns addressing concerns related to key computation identification.Execution patterns that address concerns related to supporting application execution, including strategies in executing streams of tasks and building blocks to support task synchronization.Implementation strategy patterns addressing concerns related to implementing source code to support program organization, andthe common data structures specific to parallel programming.Structural design patterns addressing concerns related to high-level structures of applications being developed. History[edit] Although design patterns have been applied practically for a long time, formalization of the concept of design patterns languished for several years.[5] Practice[edit]
Inversion of Control Containers and the Dependency Injection pattern
In the Java community there's been a rush of lightweight containers that help to assemble components from different projects into a cohesive application. Underlying these containers is a common pattern to how they perform the wiring, a concept they refer under the very generic name of "Inversion of Control". In this article I dig into how this pattern works, under the more specific name of "Dependency Injection", and contrast it with the Service Locator alternative.
25 Tips for New Developers: Advice from a (Mostly) Self-Taught Software Engineer
← Home The most common question I get from blog readers is "What is your advice for new programmers?" So, I thought it was time to write up my thoughts. I will write up my full story in the future, but I took two computer science classes in college. Then, I got a software engineering internship shortly after. I started doing web development work, initially on the backend and then eventually on the frontend.
Goodbye, Object Oriented Programming – Charles Scalfani
I’ve been programming in Object Oriented languages for decades. The first OO language I used was C++ and then Smalltalk and finally .NET and Java. I was gung-ho to leverage the benefits of Inheritance, Encapsulation, and Polymorphism.
AntiPatterns: The Survival Guide
Whereas patterns are good ideas that can be re-applied to new situations, AntiPatterns: The Survival Guide looks at what goes wrong in software development, time and time again. Most software projects fail According to new research, success in 68% of technology projects is "improbable." Poor requirements analysis causes many of these failures, meaning projects are doomed right from the start (ZDnet)
What you should know about CORS
If you're anything like me, the first time you encountered CORS (or Cross-origin resource sharing), all you wanted was for your server to accept those darn ajax requests and be done with it. So you went to stack overflow, copy pasted a code snippet to set some headers, and it worked. There are however a few things you might want to know. This is often a source of confusion for newcomers because it's not immediately apparent what CORS is supposed achieve.
HTML Variables for PayPal Payments Standard
Payment Buttons PayPal Payments Standard payment buttons and the Cart Upload command support the following HTML variables. Note: For deprecated variables, see deprecated variables. Technical variables Technical HTML variables control how PayPal responds technically when people click PayPal payment buttons or when third-party shopping carts or solution providers initiate payment processing with the Cart Upload command.
Machine Objects - Hierarchical state machines in C++
1 Introduction The Machine Objects class library allows the creation of state machines based on the "State" design pattern in plain C++. It extends the pattern with the option to create hierarchical state machines, making it possible to convert the popular UML statechart notation to working code in a straightforward way. Other features are entry and exit actions, state histories and state variables. The "just show me code" link to an example state machine: Microwave
Ten Tools Every Developer Should Know in 2018
As a developer, finding the right tools to do the job and increase productivity can be quite a daunting task. On the market today there are thousands of tools available, many of them with supplementary add-ons and plugins to give extra assistance to developers, and help make their role easier. Whether you're a Front-End Developer, part of a DevOps team or Data Analyst, there are a whole host of options conveniently accessible to help make your job easier. So we've listed the top 10 tools that we think stand out from the crowd. GitHub
