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Tag: Software Craftsmanship

Simplify and Delete

2024-08-29 Jeroen Leave a comment

In his latest Lex Fridman appearance, Elon Musk makes some excellent points about the importance of simplification. Follow these steps:…

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Posted in: Programming Filed under: Clean Code, Decision Making, Prioritization, Software Craftsmanship

Advice for junior developers

2022-09-21 Jeroen 1 Comment

Over the 15+ years of my development career, I have learned several things that significantly increase my effectiveness. In this…

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Posted in: Programming Filed under: Clean Code, Code Quality, OOP, Software Craftsmanship, Software design, SOLID, Testing

Guidelines for New Software Projects

2018-05-09 Jeroen Leave a comment

In this blog post I share the Guidelines for New Software Projects that we use at Wikimedia Deutschland. I wrote…

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Posted in: Programming Filed under: Planet Wikimedia, Software Craftsmanship, Wikimedia, WMDE

Simple is not easy

2017-01-02 Jeroen 9 Comments

Simplicity is possibly the single most important thing on the technical side of software development. It is crucial to keep…

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Posted in: Programming Filed under: Agile, Clean Code, Complexity, Learning, Planet Wikimedia, Refactoring, Simplicity, Software Architecture, Software Craftsmanship, Software design, The Zen of Python

PHP Unconference Europe 2016

2016-06-01 Jeroen Leave a comment

Last week I attended the 2016 edition of the PHP Unconference Europe, taking place in Palma De Mallorca. This post…

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Posted in: Events, Programming Filed under: Application architecture, Clean Code, Code analysis, Code Quality, Event, Metrics, Performance, PHP, Planet Wikimedia, Software Craftsmanship, Testing, unconference

Is Pair Programming worth it?

2016-05-25 Jeroen 1 Comment

Every now and then I get asked how to convince ones team members that Pair Programming is worthwhile. Often the…

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Posted in: Programming Filed under: Agile, Extreme Programming, Pair Programming, Planet Wikimedia, Software Craftsmanship

I T.A.K.E. 2016

2016-05-24 Jeroen Leave a comment

Last week I attended the I T.A.K.E. unconference in Bucharest. This unconference is about software development, and has tracks such…

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Posted in: Events, Programming, Software Filed under: Agile, Architecture, Clean Code, Conference, itake, Leadership, Metrics, Mocks, Pair Programming, Planet Wikimedia, Refactoring, Software Craftsmanship, Software design, Teams, Testing, unconference

Missing in PHP7

2016-01-30 Jeroen 7 Comments

I’ve decided to start a series of short blog posts on how PHP gets in the way of creating of well…

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Posted in: Programming Filed under: Clean Code, Code Quality, PHP, PHP7, Planet Wikimedia, Software Craftsmanship, Software design

Only smart people can learn to code

2015-12-10 Jeroen Leave a comment

I’ve just read the interesting blog post Learn To Code, It’s Harder Than You Think. This post outlines two mistakes…

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Posted in: Programming Filed under: Education, Learning, Programming, Software Craftsmanship

SoCraTes UK 2015

2015-06-08 Jeroen 1 Comment

Last week I attended SoCraTes UK 2015, the UK edition of the International Software Craftsmanship and Testing Gathering. This blog…

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Posted in: Events, Programming Filed under: Agile, Deliberate practice, Events, Extreme Programming, SoCraTes, Software Craftsmanship

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