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There is an adage that if you have nothing nice to say then don’t say anything at all. Good advice for life and when commenting code....

One way to improve a skill is to practice… Software development is a skill that requires a lot of practice, and then some. Nobody picked...

Software development is an art, but it is also a learning process. No artist sits down and creates a masterpiece in one go. He dabbles...

A development team must always strive to have zero defects open. A defect means something is wrong, the quality isn’t right and it...

Whenever you are doing any kind of query you must always try and make it a set-based query. Avoid iterating over a query result to get an...

Unless you are strictly following a Test-Driven Development (TDD) methodology, unit testing is only extra work developers need to do (on...

One of the biggest problems with code maintainability is developers trying to write super clever code. A phenomenon I like to refer to as...

Some programming languages give you the power to generate code dynamically at run-time. To generate code or not to generate code? That is...

Here is an interesting fact, relational databases are named after the mathematical relation model SQL is based on and not relationships...

If there is one thing that can hurt a team of developers… it is a manager who doesn’t trust them! This usually means micromanagement...