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If you didn’t get what you wanted for the holidays and are looking to buy a little something more for yourself, consider Clean Code by Robert Martin et al.
I finished reading it this past weekend, and think that it is a book everyone should read. As a developer, you spend your whole day reading code, the least you can do is teach yourself how to write it well.
Plus, if you loan it to your co-workers, it may well be the best gift you could ever get.
At work we recently hired a couple .Net developers and are busily converting them to Java developers. During my “what makes a good developer isn’t how well they know the syntax and libraries” and “you need to use the right tools for the job” speeches, I realized how long it has been since I really moved outside my own comfort zone as a developer.
I started life as a Perl coder around 1998 and made the jump to Java in around 2001. I remember how tired I was every night after work, but how great it was to be exposed … Continue Reading
