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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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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What's a word cloud and how can I make one?
You've most likely seen word clouds before, like in the sidebars of blogs, even if you didn't know what they were called. Learn how they're made.. and how you can make your own!...
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What is the Law of Demeter?
At work, we're running through The Pragmatic Programmer - the original, not the 2nd edition published last year. If anyone...
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What's a package manager?
If you've heard the term package manager, especially with GitHub announcing their own, you might be wondering what exactly it is. Well, it's a way to find, reuse, and share code, among other things....
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What is minification vs obfuscation?
Mozilla announced they'll no longer accept extensions with obfuscated code. It's good news for users, maybe not so much for developers. Obfuscated code is (intentionally) nearly impossible to understand, and could easily be malicious. Let's unpack and break down a few concepts....
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What is an API?
An API is an Application Programming Interface, but what's that really mean? In a more practical sense, it's one programmer hiding the (possibly messy) details of their own code behind a nice veneer, in order to make it easier for another programmer to consume it in their own program....
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