Code Review Post Mortem
At last month's DCPHP meeting, we did our first Code Review. I wasn't sure how it would go or even…
Tag: refactoring
Bad Assumptions in Development
Quite often when I'm pouring through an old codebase or evaluating a new codebase, I run into a variety of…
On Constructive Criticism
Last week at php|tek 2009, there were numerous sessions on improving your development practices. There were some focused on better…
web2project Status Update: More Object Refactoring
This is the first of a series of weekly updates that I plan to give on the status of web2project…
web2project Status Update: Object Refactoring
This is the first of a series of weekly updates that I plan to give on the status of web2project…
Managing Technical Debt
Technical debt is simply: The amount of time, money, or effort it takes to work around, manage, and fix bad…
Useful Naming Conventions
In my regular web wanderings recently, I found a great post entitled "The 7 Worst Verbs Programmers Use In Function…
Never Rebuild!?
When I wrote about the Broken Window Fallacy in Software Development a while back, it appears that there were a…
Broken Windows… A clarification
After my post last week on "The Broken Window Fallacy in Software", it was clear that there was a misunderstanding.…
The Bionic App: We Can Rebuild It, We Have the Technology
All slides are Creative Commons licensed…. give me credit, modify as needed, you can't use them commercially. If you caught…