What’s the book? Scrum: The Art of Doing Twice the Work in Half the Time by Jeff Sutherland How did I “read” this book? Audio book. Why did I choose to read it? / What made me want to read it? I actually read this book probably over a year ago. At the time, I was studying to get my Scrum Master certification. I haven’t gotten around to it, but I’m starting back up. Thus this book review. What did I like about this book? This book was really good about incorporating stories and view points that was not just from software development. One…
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What’s the book? The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business by Charles Duhigg How did I “read” this book? Audio book. Why did I choose to read it? / What made me want to read it? Well, for one thing, it has a catchy title. And, two, I figured I’d stop reading “life hack” articles where the author just distills a topic from a book like this, and just start reading a book that was written more intentionally. And also, I’m interested in how people work. How people come to their decisions. How people think and rationalize. An…
Last October I was accepted to speak at the 2015 Atlanta Code Camp on keeping clean code. It was a really great experience, I would definitely recommend this conference for anyone who wants to speak at tech events. I’ve been to this conference in the past, but this is the first time I’ve been a speaker. The organizers of the conference were on top of things, and they made sure I had everything I needed prior to my presentation. And knowing I was a bit nervous about giving my talk, they checked in with me afterwards. The speakers’ dinner, the…
I had the privilege of being a speaker at the 2015 Atlanta Code Camp conference. And I had really enjoyed it, and I will write up a post about it. But if you missed it or are curious about my talk on Clean Code, my slide deck is below! [embeddoc url=”http://tanyado.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/Atlanta-Code-Camp-Clean-Code.pptx” viewer=”microsoft”]
Here are some photos I manage to take over last weekend. They are not in any order and only highlight a few, but many of the great things that 48in48 did. Also, I totally promised that websites were made, even if I took no pictures of them. 🙂 We were greeted at the entrance by this great signage and chalk logo. And this chalk Atlanta Skyline. One of the many general gatherings, we had over the 48 hours. Warrick Dunn stopped by Saturday morning to talk about his charity, which was one of the 48 non-profit organizations to receive a…
Visual design is important. I’m not talking about making applications look pretty. (Which is never a bad thing.) I’m talking about how an the User Interface of an application is laid out. How the user interacts with the application. A good design will draw the user’s eye to the correct area and lead them through the application as you, the developer, intended. You should never need to read a manual or instruction guide to use the application. A well designed application is intuitive to the user and natural to use. The user, upon first use of the application, should be able to “just know”…
This week’s Mercer/Macon Google Developer Group was hosted at SparkMacon, and my friend and coworker, Michael Rosario, was presenting on DroidScripts. This is Michael. DroidScripts lets you write android apps with JavaScript. Ya know, if you’re really into JavaScript. But it really does seems to be a good alternative to regular Java/Android, if you’re looking to do some quick prototyping. There’s no manifest file to futz around with and hardly any setup before coding. (Bee tee dubs, I called the “manifest” file the “manifesto” file for the longest time. And nobody corrected me, seriously? lol.) The IDE you develop in is browser based,…
Problem So I’m working on a web application, where I needed a way to detect when a user has closed their browser. Javascript’s onunload event looked promising. However, it is unable to differentiate between a browser closing, a postback, and a page refresh. After talking (i.e. complaining) to Kyle, he suggested this Stack Overflow solution on implementing a heartbeat pattern, letting the server know when the client was no longer active. Heartbeat Pattern In the heartbeat pattern (where you can read more about here), the client will send a signal to the server indicating that it’s still alive every 10 minutes (or…
Keeping code clean does not have to be a huge endeavor. Just do a little bit at a time, and your code will be shiny in no time. Consistency in naming variable. From the database, to the middle layer, to the user interface. If they are the same thing, do not change up the naming. It will make it so much easier for both you and other people to follow the code. Delete commented out code. If the build is working without the commented code, then you don’t need it. Maybe it’s someone else’s code. But if it’s been there…
Your code is bad… Take care of it
Published by Tanya Do on August 19, 2015Refactoring is often not done. “There is not enough time”. “Its not your responsibility”. Look. Refactoring can only *help* you. You don’t need to devote hours and hours to it. Just make small changes. And over time your code will improve. And for the most part. Most of us are not writing NEW code. We are maintaining code. (And you probably should not be trying to write MORE code, but that’s another story). And its likely you will be working in the same code base for the duration of your employment, or will eventually be called to return to it.…