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There are several ways to think about software, and it can be useful to consider your software from a few different perspectives. Object oriented designs can help keep you grounded in what real things your code is representing. Functional approaches (even just in a spec) can help you keep clear about a problem and it’s [...]

I’ve been adding custom fields to our web API at work and thought I’d share some ideas that came up. Use metadata to automate as much as you reasonably can; eg being able to interrogate an object to find out what calls are available and who may call them is pretty handy. Make it easy [...]

How often do you design user interfaces? Some of us don’t need to work with them much. Others have professional designers to do UI design for them. For the rest of us, well at least creating a User Interface is easy these days. Creating a Usable Interface on the other hand can be quite a [...]

I recently picked up a copy of Mike Gunderloy’s book, “Coder To Developer”. The title grabbed me right away because it’s exactly what this site is about! Reading it in fragments of time between work and home commitments, I was actually excited to try things after reading each chapter. The bulk of the book is [...]