Sometimes, you might find yourself needing to communicate with a database such as MySQL programmatically. Maybe you are creating a CRUD (Create, Read, Update, and Delete) application. Or maybe you don’t have a direct connection to the database.
Everyone that works in an office (especially in an open office space) will have to deal with daily distractions, and software developers are no exception. It is well known that distractions are harmful to your productivity but it has a more worst effect on developers.
As software developers, sometimes we forget that the product that we built will be used by other people. We get too caught up in all the fancy tech involved. Too focused on creating a feature that we think is awesome but has minimal value to the end user. We forget […]
If you are applying Agile, then there will be a product backlog. There are many ways to apply Agile, but most of them will revolve around a product backlog.
We live in a time where software makes software development so much faster and simpler. Writing a simple hello world program in C++ is as simple as installing an IDE (integrated development environment), write a cout statement and then press build. The IDE makes the process nice and simple, but […]
Kanban is a loosely defined methodology. It is based more on principles than on instructions.
Agile is a big game changer to how we develop software. Before Agile, most development projects were using some form of waterfall whether they realized it or not. What this means is that they were building software sequentially, going from one phase to the next. So, at this point, you’re […]
There are many ways to organize the workflow of software development. You might have already encountered a few of them, but not realize it. Maybe you do, but don’t know what the name for it is.
Version control has a love-hate relationship with most developers. Regardless, it is safe to say most developers will agree with that version control is important for any complex software. There are numerous benefits to using version control that outweighs the negatives.
