Links tagged “development”

ootips.org

One recommended book per topic, across object-oriented design, programming languages, components and databases, and software management.

geosoft.no

A numbered checklist of rules for writing unit tests — keep them small, fast, fully automated, independent of each other and readable.

svn.kmrc.de

Apache directory listing mirroring Python eggs and source tarballs — Jinja2, Paste, Pygments, Sphinx, Pillow and others — built for Python 2.4 through 2.7.

lucumr.pocoo.org

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en.wikipedia.org

Encyclopedia article on the waterfall model, the software development process that runs the lifecycle phases in strict sequence, each one finished before the next begins.

multicians.org

Short essay arguing that each bug found should prompt three questions: is the mistake elsewhere too, what bug hides behind it, and how to prevent bugs of that kind.

alistapart.com

A List Apart article on how JavaScript methods lose their intended "this" when passed around, and how apply, call, wrapper functions and closures restore the binding.

joelonsoftware.com

Joel Spolsky's primer on character encodings, walking from ASCII through code pages to Unicode and UTF-8, and why no string is meaningful without knowing its encoding.