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Best Practices

Don’t Snub the Code Review

The topic of code reviews has always caused much debate in many software shops where I have worked.\n\nI am often…

Career

Consultants: Know Your Markup

Now that I am not a consultant anymore, I can finally write about this topic. This is one of those…

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Agile

Refactor then Change Legacy Code

I was reminded yesterday of a very important step I had been forgetting when working with legacy code.  The first…

Implementation Patterns
Book Review

Book Review: Implementation Patterns

I finally finished “Implementation Patterns” by Kent Beck and I have to be honest.  I am a little disappointed.  Let me…

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Book Review

Book Review: Clean Code

I recently completed reading the book “Clean Code” by Robert Martin.  I have to say that this one is a…

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