Tag: Software engineering
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Image Effects with CSS
Posted on October 11, 2017, Level beginner Resource Length medium
Bennett Feely nice write-up on using one or more newer CSS properties (background-blend-mode, mix-blend-mode, or filter) and how it gives us a surprising amount of possibilities to manipulate a single source image.
Tags frontend-and-mobile software-engineering
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Building a large-scale design system for government
Posted on October 7, 2017, Level beginner Resource Length long
Maya Benari long article describing design thoughts behind architecture for federal websites. Team unified a complex system with numerous rules to serve users from all corners of the country.
Tags architecture-and-apis software-engineering devops-and-ci-cd
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LinkedIn Tips for Highly Effective Code Review
Posted on October 4, 2017, Level beginner Resource Length medium
Szczepan Faber blog post about LinkedIn code review process. LinkedIn recently passed the milestone of having conducted one million code reviews. The head of the social networking service's tooling shared a few learned lessons along the way.
Tags leadership-and-career software-engineering
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5 things about programming I learned with Go
Posted on August 26, 2017, Level beginner Resource Length long
Michał Konarski interesting and engaging post about his journey with golang programming language. Author explains why even if you do not plan to use it in the long run, Go is worth the effort.
Tags software-engineering backend-development
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Forget coding, here is the skill you need most when you start your career
Posted on August 10, 2017, Level beginner Resource Length medium
Lars Schmidt article on developing soft skills as main driver for propelling your career. It used to be that the only way to climb a career ladder was to pick up more skills. Today, many of those ladders have fallen and shattered.
Tags software-engineering leadership-and-career
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Creative writing with git-flow and the Snowflake Method
Posted on August 7, 2017, Level beginner Resource Length medium
Sage Gerard wrote this interesting article about using git flow with creative writing. Randy Ingermanson's Snowflake Method makes you start from a crude, yet complete one sentence story and iterate until you are left with a good story.
Tags software-engineering miscellaneous
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Tech docs and Agile
Posted on August 6, 2017, Level beginner Resource Length long
Although it seems like documentation should be treated like other features worked on by a Scrum team, frequently it is not. When tech writers try to integrate into engineering Scrum teams, they usually run into a host of challenges. Excellent two part article from Tom Johnson.
Tags software-engineering leadership-and-career
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Pay Down Your Technical Debt Faster by Limiting Your Payments
Posted on August 4, 2017, Level beginner Resource Length medium
Dan Fabulich, Principal Engineer at Redfin, shares his thoughts on paying technical debt faster. Paradoxically, employees who want to take vacation and/or clean up their code do less of it when they have "unlimited" time.
Tags software-engineering
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Pragmatic Functional Programming
Posted on July 30, 2017, Level beginner Resource Length short
Robert C. Martin (Uncle Bob) post about how move to functional programming began and happened. He starts with Moore's law and processor development and how multi-core processors changed the way we design software.
Tags software-engineering
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My $169 development Chromebook
Posted on July 28, 2017, Level beginner Resource Length long
Kenneth White excellent blog post exploring his experience with using Chromebook as his main development station after 2 weeks of usage.
Tags software-engineering frontend-and-mobile
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9 Tips To Become A Better Front End Developer
Posted on July 27, 2017, Level beginner Resource Length medium
Harrison Davis has written article in which he collected 9 tips how to become better front end developer.
Tags software-engineering frontend-and-mobile
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Akka Streams for mission critical systems
Posted on July 22, 2017, Level beginner Resource Length short
@AshNuq from Lightbend posted about usage of akka streams in mission critical systems by large online payment industry leaders including PayPal, Credit Karma and Flipkart.
Tags architecture-and-apis software-engineering