“It’s Done!” “Great! What does that mean?”
One of the unique challenges of software construction, versus other forms of construction, is that what software developers build is largely intangible and i...
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Just-in-Time Documentation
One of the most interesting tenets of the Agile Manifesto is valuing “working software over comprehensive documentation,” which is often misinterpreted as, “...
Swagger Document Generation without Launching a Webserver
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Inheritance Pain Points
I recently read this excellent DZone article by Nehme Bilal, detailing why inheritance is a poor choice for extending an object’s functionality and how the d...
Sick Day
I’ve been out sick most of this week due to an annoyingly persistent headcold. When I was a kid and I got sick enough to stay home from school, I’d lay in be...