Side projects are becoming more common for software developers nowadays. Many works on side projects for fun. However, side projects are also beneficial for a developer’s career. Therefore, the goal of this post is to mention five benefits to side projects.
Finding a niche or specialization is one of the biggest steps to pushing your career forward. This is no different when it comes to your career as a software developer. With so much information out there in the tech world, you must specialize in order to keep up.
The modern work environment can be difficult to deal with for those that are on the introverted side. Open office space, distractions at every corner, and constant talking everywhere are some examples of what goes on in most modern work environments. For those that are more on the extroverted side, […]
Writing clean and readable code is one of those things that naturally happens after you have done it often enough (at least for most people). Although everyone improves at a different pace, there are ways for you to speed up the pace. Therefore, the goal of this post is for […]
You have always heard that it is important to write code that is more “readable”. But what exactly makes the code more readable? There is no absolute answer to what is readable code. It varies depending on the developers and even what you consider is readable code. Readable code to […]
As programmers, developers, and engineers at one point or another we had come across that commenting your code is good. All good code contains comments and that is why you should use them, right? The answer is that it depends. Wrong usages of comments can do more harm than good.
You have probably heard that you should always write and deliver clean code. Although that would be ideal, it does not always happen in the real world. There are many variables that prevent writing perfectly clean code. As a result, much of the code that you will encounter is “clean […]
Recently the area where I write software has been renovated. The change that stood out to me was the glaring ceiling lights, which had been changed to bright fluorescent lights (5K color temperature). After being exposed to the fluorescent lights for less than one hour, I began to feel sick. […]
Software is getting more complex by the day. Nowadays, when you want to write a simple Android app you need the Android framework and SDK (software development kit) and maybe an IDE (integrated development environment) like Android Studio or Eclipse. There is a lot packed into the Android Framework and […]
Often time less experienced software developers tend to have the wrong idea of being productive in software development. They believe that to be productive, they have to be writing code all the time. Do you fall into this description?
