When you have a huge backlog of possible features to implement in your app, you may be tempted to create a plugin model so that other people can modify it. However, this path is trickier than it seems. Read ...

Defensive programming is about creating long lasting applications that will graciously handle unexpected inputs from users. It's building code to survive the test of time. Read more › The post ...

We've all been there. You get placed onto a "new" project, only to find that it's actually really old code that nobody in the office knows anything about. A lot of developers have a really hard time ...

While you may rely on documentation to help you most of the time with tech-related things, there are plenty of times you need to be able to rely on your own memory. Whether it's because you are doing ...

It's happened to us all. We get excited about a great idea or project we're working on. Put in a lot of work and effort up front. Then things get difficult or we hit a slow down and have to force ourselves ...

Whether it's wrapping the database or other external services, or simply as a way to handle cross-cutting concerns, code generation is something you will run into a lot. You'll also find that a lot of ...

The dead sea is dead for a reason. Dead sea development environments are usually toxic to your career, destructive to your motivation, and terribly ineffective. Read more › The post Mitigating ...

Most of us will have to deal with HTTP at some point in our career. Understanding the web and its underlying protocols is absolutely necessary for understanding most larger systems in use today. While ...

Where mathematics and philosophy meet you'll find formal logic. It is a systematic study of valid inference. In it one starts with a proposition or assumed hypotheses and derives a conclusion. Read more ...

Software developers get burn out. Frequently, burnout is caused by poor boundaries, especially with your job. Read more › The post Keep Your Job From Burning You Out appeared first on Complete ...

Conferences are a fun place to learn, grow, and meet fellow developers. Whether you are a seasoned code veteran or newbie searching for your first junior developer job tech conferences have something ...

10X developer? What does that even mean? There's been a lot of discussion and even some controversy over the term 10X Developer. Read more › The post 10X Developers appeared first on Complete ...

We all have those nights where no matter what we do we just can't seem to fall asleep. Looking at the clock, calculating how many hours until we have to get up just makes it worse. Read more › The ...

A rising alternative to the content management system approach is to use the JAMstack, which stands for Javascript, APIs, and Markup. It's an approach to building websites that is intended to deliver ...

Speaking at conferences can be daunting, especially if you are first starting out. Public speaking can be hard enough without going through the conference talk process. Both Will and BJ have gone through ...

If you are contemplating starting a side project, there are some things you need to keep in mind in order to keep your day job from interfering with, or even damaging your side project. You also need ...

There are a ton of programming books out there, but there are only a few that have made a huge and lasting impression on developers across the board. One of those is The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman ...

Taking responsibility is taking action in your life that moves you toward happiness and success. It is about owning the consequences of what you do. When taking responsibility in your life you allow ...

As software companies mature, many of the employees (including developers, testers, project managers, and designers) find themselves further and further removed from the daily lives of those who use ...

Test code is code! Just like with real code certain patterns emerge when writing automated tests for your code. The patterns or observations about the best way to write tests help us to design our automated ...

Throughout your career as a developer you are likely to work at some well established companies as well as some just getting started. You may even start your own company at some point. Working as or ...

Regardless of who you are, technical debt represents an issue that you need to understand in order to be effective. In this episode, we're going to discuss some other ways to understand the problem that ...

We've had conversations about emotional intelligence, goal setting, journaling, and many other topics. Each one a part of helping you to better understand yourself. Increasing your self awareness will ...

When most of us finish a project, we don't really think much about it unless a problem comes up. However, once you've rolled an application out to production, there are certain things that you can expect ...

Everyone likes to feel involved. Even the shyest introverts need a community, something to connect them with others like them. As developers we can often feel isolated in our own worlds of study or focus ...