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Scratch that itch for coding!
Learning a little about programming could benefit anyone. If you want a fun intro to coding and logical thinking, check out Scratch!
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3 inspiring apps from the DigitalOcean App Platform Hackathon
A few of my favorite submissions from DigitalOcean's App Platform hackathon, that hold real promise for bringing people together!...
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Sonic Pi is music to the ears
Some programmers think their code is music to the ears - with Sonic Pi it is! A tool for creating music, it serves as a fun intro to development too....
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Praise for Laudate
People everywhere are desperately in need of things to be hopeful for. For Catholics, with a rich tradition going back thousands of years, it's not a question of whether there are resources, but where to find them. The Laudate app (Latin for "praise") can help with that!...
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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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