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One of my coworkers remarked recently that software engineers have an overengineering problem. What did he mean -- and how common is this problem? Let's look at what over-engineering is and why it's a problem with a real-world example we're all familiar with.  What...

Psst, hey I got a little programmer secret.... Ready? I think most programmers will agree that testing your code, at least in theory, is a good idea. After all, we’ve seen the public consequences of software code that hasn’t been tested enough. The recent “heartbleed...

Most software engineers will, sooner or later, learn about design patterns. Or at the very least, hear wind that design patterns are an important arsenal in a software engineer's toolbox. A design pattern isn't really something tangible you can pluck off a store...

Artists work with imagery and pictures. Singers work with music and songs. Writers and poets work with the arrangement of words. Software developers work with the arrangement of computer code. That’s what we software developers deal with in our day to day activities....

When you’ve been around the “software programming block” for a while, you can almost telepathically understand the motivation behind certain programming constructs and tools. In particular, the concept of serialization and deserialization. In a nutshell, it’s a way to...

I came across this interesting article about how easily software code can transform from the cleanest, slickest code this side of codemonkey Shangri-La, into a giant mess of spaghetti code that becomes a nightmare for the poor code monkey who has to inherit it and...