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February 27, 2020

Naming Things: A short book about one of coding’s most elusive tasks

Today, I’m excited to announce the release of a new, free online book called Naming Things. It...

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Programming
February 27, 2020

Naming Things: A short book about one of coding’s most elusive tasks

Today, I’m excited to announce the release of a new, free online book called Naming Things. It...

Programming
November 27, 2017

Using .Net extension methods as syntactic sugar without the toothache

Since extension methods were introduced to .NET in 2007, how to use them appropriately has always be...

Programming
November 21, 2017

In business for the love of coding

For awhile now, I’ve been following a Twitter account called Programming Wisdom. I’ve a...

Programming
April 18, 2017

What really bothers us about waiting for things

Few things are more maddening than standing around idly while we wait for something to happen. It&#...

Programming
March 31, 2017

The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up Your Codebase

There’s a book that’s grown a cult-like following over the past couple of years that you may be fam...

Programming
March 16, 2017

When it’s 6am and the app is on fire…

I woke up on a typically cold and dreary February morning in Chicago before the sun rose. I leaned ...

Programming
January 28, 2017

Why I Invest a lot of time in writing

After he bought a small stake in 37signals a few years back, Jeff Bezos gave some heady advice to t...

Programming
October 20, 2016

Camaraderie and recognition inside the development team

For me, programming almost always feels like working simultaneously inside two different worlds. Fi...

Programming
September 8, 2016

How we built and maintain our global search catalog (Part 2)

In last week’s blog post, I showed you how we use Lucene.Net, a code library and document database ...

Programming
September 2, 2016

How we built and maintain our global search catalog (Part 1)

This is the first of a two-part post on how we built DoneDone’s global search catalog. In thi...

Programming
May 3, 2016

The unintended byproducts of refactoring code

Whenever I start on a large refactoring, I need to justify that the exercise is truly worthwhile. A...

Programming
April 26, 2016

Going native with system fonts and form fields

Designing an application interface in today’s world is difficult. Many products offer native ...

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