As technologists - we can mostly agree on the importance of clearing out looming technical debt, maintaining project things like framework upgrades and more, but how do you go about it when your management is pushing back? How can you ensure you're helping your code survive the long-haul when time and time again features are the driving force. Let's chat.
Technical debt is a natural part of software development. New frameworks come out, better ways to do things are found, SDK and languages updates are a thing, plus a hundred other external influences in your project. All of these things lead to old code that needs to be updated to keep on par with the […]
Software's architecture is often compared to the structure of a home -- the foundation and building blocks to what will become a house. So doesn't it make sense to compare our code to the clutter in our home? Let's identify some easy wins for cleaning up our codebase and take action on them.
My introduction to mobile was a rough start. In fact, it was so rough I told myself I was never doing that again. When my first job offer came around though, they were short on iOS and Android developers.. and well, being rather desperate as a single mom with loads of student debt, I jumped […]
A while back a #devdiscuss post by @ThePraticalDev sparked a great discussion on the advice users have for getting the most out of Github. Either for personal use, team use, open source, career advancement and more. I took the liberty to compile some of the best advice and write this post. Branches The first topic I […]
Now and then when you encounter a problem, you have to put on your Hacker hoodie and just go for it. That’s how I discovered some of the debugging capabilities of Fiddler. As an iOS developer – it’s difficult to capture the network calls your app is making to determine why weird things are happening. […]
A year and a half ago, I was questioning my career as a developer. I love making things, don’t get me wrong, but I was very disappointed with what I was making. Three years of maintaining apps, minimal new features, and all of my ideas were being over thrown. I’d come home from work frustrated, […]
Hey ya’ll! I hope you enjoyed my first robotics post and are ready to start your own! This is an introduction to your Arduino Uno. I am still new to robotics myself, but together we will prevail. I hope to pass on what I know and you can pass on what you know, and soon […]
I was always kind of curious about robotics. As a mobile developer, I realize how fast technology changes & understand I might not be working on iPhones in 10 years. I may be working on some kind of software-hardware-Alexa-human-body combination. Who knows. Robots. The wheels started turning back in college. I had a professor who […]
Recently I was tasked with creating a Hololens prototype in Unity. The only experience I had with Unity was a tutorial 3 years ago where every _single_ step was drafted out. I thought that gave me enough of an introduction to navigate around the IDE without too many tears, so onward I went. Here are […]