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15 Nov Speed KILLS

Posted at 11:03h in Programming, Software Development

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Being a programmer means you are under tremendous pressure to go fast. There are deadlines to meet. There are bugs to fix before the big demo. There are production schedules to keep. And your job depends on how fast you go and how reliably you keep your...

12 Nov SKILLS NEEDED IN A TEAM

Posted at 09:34h in Software Development

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The ability to communicate ideas and designs quickly and clearly. The ability to listen to the ideas of others. Enough confidence to lead. Enough self-esteem to follow. The ability to teach. The willingness to learn. A desire to promote consensus combined with the courage to accept conflict in pursuit of that consensus. Willingness...

12 Nov simple rule for Unit-Testing

Posted at 06:04h in Programming, Software Development

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Arrange Act Assert Arrange mean that we need to arrange or set up the necessary parameters for the test. Act means just do the action which might be calling a method, calling a controller. Assert means just evaluate the result. ...

11 Nov Basic Authentication vs Digest Authentication

Posted at 08:25h in Programming, Software Development

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Digest Authentication communicates credentials in an encrypted form by applying a hash function to the username, the password, a server-supplied nonce value, the HTTP method, and the requested URI while Basic Authentication uses unencrypted base64 encoding. It's highly recommended that Basic Authentication should generally only be...

26 Oct The Ten Commandments of Egoless Programming

Posted at 06:04h in Software Development

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Understand and accept that you will make mistakes. The point is to find them early before they make it into production. Fortunately, except for the few of us developing rocket guidance software at JPL, mistakes are rarely fatal in our industry. We can, and should, learn,...