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Software Development Processes With and Without UX
If your company is not including UX specialists in the software design and development process, your process most likely looks…
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Agile UX: How to Incorporate UX and Product Design into Agile
DevOps is often defined as the processes, operations, methodologies, tools, and culture surrounding a company’s software and systems development. But…
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Better Android Apps Using MVVM with Clean Architecture
If you don’t choose the right architecture for your Android project, you will have a hard time maintaining it as your codebase…
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F# Tutorial: How to Build a Full-stack F# App
In recent years, functional programming has gained a reputation as a particularly rigorous and productive paradigm. Not only are functional…
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Designing for Readability – A Guide to Web Typography (with Infographic)
Choosing a typeface can be done by virtually anyone—simply click a name in a dropdown list. And yet, choosing the right typeface…
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Design with Precision – an Adobe XD Review
As we wrap up 2018 and step into 2019, let’s review the current state of the design industry, the designer’s…
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5 Lessons Learned as a First-Time Software Engineering Intern
1. Be assured of the skills you have, and ready to learn the ones you don’t. You may feel useless…
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Exercises in Programming Style
In the book club at work, we recently finished reading Exercises in Programming Style by Cristina Videira Lopes. The book consists of a…
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My Favorite Command-Line Shortcuts
I use a shell every day. Almost always, I want to repeat a previous command, or repeat it after a…
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Developer On Call
For the system at work, I am on call one week every seven weeks. For most of the past ten…
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What Makes a Good Programmer?
What makes a good programmer? It’s an interesting question to ask yourself. It makes you reflect on the craft of software…
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Great Programmers Write Debuggable Code
All programs need some form of logging built in to them, so we can observe what it is doing. This…
