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What does it mean to be a professional programmer?
Episode 223
Published 3 years, 3 months ago
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An airhacks.fm conversation with Ken Fogel (@omniprof) about:
previously Ken on airhacks.fm "#205 Mr. Omni", JavaOne in Las Vegas, What does it mean to be a professional programmer, the engineering principles, building a Las Vegas Conference Management System, the Use Case UML diagram, how to capture requirements, the developer and the client have to have a good idea about the system, the “Transitioning to Java” book, "#103 Unit Testing Considered Harmful", System Tests over Unit Tests, misusing system tests to identify dead code, Unit Test coverage is the false indicator of quality, cypress over selenium, programmer vs. developer, Christopher Alexander and software patterns, GRASP patterns or how to build a maintainable system, write simple code, KISS and YAGNI
Ken Fogel on twitter: @omniprof