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Clean code is one of the first ideas that makes developers feel like professionals. For many developers, though, it can stop being a helpful guideline and become a trap instead. That's why you need to ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I track enterprise software application development & data management. Software has a weight. In a totally abstract digital sense, ...

Once a developer finishes writing code and it works, it can feel like the job is done. It is not. The job is over when the code is refactored and cleaned up. Developers inevitably work to a deadline ...

The latest trends in software development from the Computer Weekly Application Developer Network. This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Timothy Gilboy in his ...

Value stream management involves people in the organization to examine workflows and other processes to ensure they are deriving the maximum value from their efforts while eliminating waste — of ...

Premature optimization may be the root of all evil, but these tools will make sure your code is clear, clean and secure. Testing your application before shipping is an important part of the ...

Dependency Injection is a programming paradigm that has recently been gaining considerable popularity within the Microsoft .NET Framework community. Applying it will force decisions to be made about ...

I usually try to follow the advice of the book Working Effectively with Legacy Code. I break dependencies, move parts of the code to @VisibleForTesting public static methods and to new classes to make ...

Some of the world’s most ancient languages and writing systems have yet to be deciphered, leaving scholars to search for additional artifacts and information that could yield breakthroughs. These ...