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What quality level in the commit history can/should I expect/enforce?
I worked as a lone developer for a long time. During this time, I developed a way of formulating and ordering commit messages: Refactor first, describe exactly the reason for the commit in the ...
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Introducing design concepts/patterns/principles to co-workers
I've read Joel's article about getting things done when you're a "grunt", several times in fact, but I've never been able to do any of the things it mentions.
I work as part of a small development ...
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Is it better to use pre-existing bad practices, or good practices that don't fit well with old code?
I was thinking of this because I was trying to write an extension for an existing 3rd party software, and their database is horribly denormalized. I needed to use their existing tables and add a bunch ...
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How can I promote clean coding at my workplace?
I work with a lot of legacy Java and RPG code on an internal company application. As you might expect, a lot of the code is written in many different styles, and often is difficult to read because of ...
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How do you overcome your own coding biases when handed legacy code?
As programmers, we often take incredible pride in our skills and hold very strong opinions about what is 'good' code and 'bad' code.
At any given point in our careers, we've probably had some legacy ...
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How a freelancer can learn industry standards?
Being a freelancer, I don't have access to corporate training programs where employees learn best practices. Most of the time I am advised to look into the available code on the Internet. Ideal places ...
