Developing Programmers .com

Welcome to Developing Programmers — a journal of ideas, tools, techniques and anything else relevant to a coder who is taking “the next step” into commercial software development and realizing there’s more to it than cranking out a program that works.

Roughly weekly I will add an article about a topic relevant to developing programmers. The articles will include things like:

• What is a Configuration Management System and why would I want one?
• How and why to organize your code so that others in your team can read it and safely modify it.
• What is enough documentation?
• What skills do experienced employers look for?
• Code as a form of communication.
• Testing, both informally and formally.
• Sleep or Caffeine?
• What is “extreme programming”? Does it involve jumping out of an airplane?