In most languages, you can use the standard library to accomplish most tasks. Yet, it is usually helpful to use popular frameworks and libraries to handle common tasks that applications need. For Java, this may…

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Setting and enforcing coding standards is crucial. They are a key element to ensuring an application’s quality and maintainability. Adhering to standards can help reduce bugs and create a consistent codebase. JavaScript coding standards are…

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Netscape’s Brendan Eich created JavaScript 20 years ago. It originally provided a lightweight scripting language in browsers. But, inconsistencies among different browsers caused issues. This led to the creation of various frameworks and tools to…

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Just in case you missed one post in our popular Clean Code Series, here they all are. Part 1: The Difference Between Programmers and Software Engineers Part 2: Why Clean Code is Important for Developers…

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I have some earth-shattering news to share… Software Engineering is hard. Expectations for Software Engineers (as opposed to programmers) are high. We’re expected to have an ever-broadening spectrum of knowledge, and to be able to…

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We’ve talked about how Clean Code leads to better naming and focused functions. Both have a huge impact on how quickly the development team can respond to change. But there’s another piece, without which, the…

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Continuing our Clean Code discussion, imagine you have a textbook from which you only need information from a single section. Now imagine that textbook has neither chapters, nor sections or paragraphs, and is even lacking…

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