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What is mocking a dependency?
When you're writing tests, you generally don't want to write to the database, email customers, and hit third-party API's. That's why we need to know how to mock dependencies!
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What's a code review?
Does the idea of submitting to a code review make you sweat bullets? Or do you brush it off as a necessary evil? It should be a (hopefully positive) conversation, wherein the team agrees to the code they're all going to have to help maintain, and maybe learns something new too....
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The transient nature of code
I just did one of the worst things a dev can do to another dev. I deleted his code! It was good code, covered by dozens of tests... but it wasn't needed anymore. The nature of our work is that it's a progression, and any individual code is transient by nature. Today's code is tomorrow's refactoring....
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Does rethrowing an exception in C# still reset the stack trace?
All programming languages have gotchas to trip you up. In C#, one of them is the subtle (but significant) difference between "throw" and "throw ex"....
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How will I know when I'm a programmer?
How do you know when you've finally arrived, and are officially a programmer? Is it a set of skills, a certain amount of time? Can you ever really arrive, when it's a race of one with no finish line?...
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Run Link Run (saving Zelda for 30+ years)
A few years ago, on the 30th anniversary of the Legend of Zelda, Scott Lininger and Mike Magee open sourced a 3D version of the original LoZ. The site was taken down, but the code's still available to run!...
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Neat Little Boxes
The last 6 months have seen a complete shift in how I work. My life was separated into a series of neat little boxes, I realize, but everything's blended now. Some of it's been great, but other parts, well.. it's a work in progress....
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Whatever happened to the webring? And what was the point?
Once upon a time, search engines stunk, and web surfers couldn't find awful sites. So website owners joined hands in solidarity, and linked to one another's sites. And the webring was born....
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