Episodes: Page: 13
July 9th 2020 by Beej Burns
An archetype is a recurring symbol or motif in literature, art, or mythology. It is a very typical example of a certain person or thing. It…
July 2nd 2020 by Will Gant
Depending on who you talk to, scrum is either a standard industry practice, a panacea for all that ails development, or is a total waste of…
June 25th 2020 by Beej Burns
256 is a composite number, it is 2 to the 8th, making it a power of two. It is also 4 to the 4th and a perfect square (16^2). It is also the…
June 18th 2020 by Will Gant
Web APIs are often the best way to go when different parts of your application need to communicate, or when people outside of your…
June 11th 2020 by Will Gant
It's tricky to get developers to write and maintain good documentation. Frequently, documentation has huge gaps in content, is woefully out…
June 4th 2020 by Beej Burns
As developers we are a rather unique bunch of individuals. Either development attracted us because of certain personality characteristics or…
May 28th 2020 by Beej Burns
Static code analysis is a way of debugging that automatically examines source code before it compiles or is run. It does this by comparing…
May 21st 2020 by Will Gant
Working remotely is a wonderful job perk and can make many developers more productive, happy, and less likely to leave for greener pastures…
May 14th 2020 by Beej Burns
As programmers, we tend to be a rather interesting bunch. Some might even call us peculiar. Developers tend to have our own culture and even…
May 7th 2020 by Will Gant
The rule: Normalize until it hurts; denormalize until it works. That's what you typically get taught early on. While normalizing a database…