Software “best practices” are often a combination of personal experience, corporate knowledge, group-think, and even customer requirements in some cases. As developers work to create new software or ...

It’s safe to say that many, if not most, of us have done this before. But maybe your rule-breaking is exactly why your code was better than average. At least it didn’t make you lose your job. Or make ...

Following up on his earlier book, Computational Fairy Tales, Jeremy Kubica brings us more education in programming through stories in his newest book, this time dealing with the best practices of ...

Why do programs fail? For as far as we've come since the very first time Ada Lovelace saw the potential of universal computation in the 19th century, our software still has bugs. Over the years, even ...

Whether the subject is programming guidelines or nearly anything else, there's a difference between documenting and prescribing. Be clear on the task before you start I have been recently asked to ...

You can take advantage of asynchronous programming to perform resource-intensive operations without having to block on executing thread of your application. This increases the throughput while at the ...