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Jack of all trades, Master of One

Jack of all trades, master of none The above is a well-known saying that people tend to use when referring to polymaths or generalists. It's...more.

Sharing Secrets with GPG

Aaron Lahey
23 Oct 2018
Coding
Tools

As software developers, we're often given access to various pieces of sensitive information in order to do our job. This could be anything from database...more.

What’s in a Name?: Domains and Domain Name Servers

Avni Kothari
16 Oct 2018
Coding

I’ve been learning more about computer networking recently, and part of that exploration has led me to learn more about domains and domain name servers....more.

An Introduction to Database Indexing

Kyle Annen
09 Oct 2018
DevOps

My first experience with SQL performance tuning came before I decided to pursue programming as a career. As a Business Intelligence Manager, I was tasked...more.

Learning New Programming Languages by Building on Existing Foundations

Severin Perez
02 Oct 2018
Coding

This article was originally published on Medium on September 4th, 2018 One of the things about being a developer is that you’re never done learning....more.

What is VS Live (VS Code) and Why Should You Care?

Pair programming is two coders working together at one workstation on a single piece of code. Done well, the coders sit together and discuss the...more.

Microservices Aren’t Magic: Handling Timeouts

Microservices are a big deal. They can give us some pretty big wins for our architectures and teams, but microservices have plenty of costs too....more.

Here’s What Happened: Five Things We Learned About Unit Tests from David Scott Bernstein

Learning, sharing, growth. Those three things are what brought together 60 software crafters on a Thursday evening in Seattle, Washington. David Scott Bernstein, the author...more.

Dependency Inversion in React with Render Props

I remember the day when I “discovered” dependency injection. I was having a difficult time testing a console view, and all of my mocking strategies...more.

Exploring Error Handling Patterns in Go

When you're learning another language, there can be periods of frustration where you're having trouble expressing an idea that would have been easier in a...more.

Don't call us, we'll call you: Inversion of Control Containers

Sam Szreter
24 Jul 2018
Coding

The journey from global variables to managed dependency injection When writing object-oriented code, we inevitably end up with some objects that are either unique (we...more.