A comprehensive description of the threading mechanisms available in .NET as well as how to use them best can be found in the free E-Book „Threading in C#“ by Joseph Albahari.
Schlagwort: Coding
Professional Software Development
What defines a professional developer? The initiative „Clean Code Developer“ (german only, english version using Google Translate) tries to facilitate a common understanding of this question. It has started to collect principles, rules and best practices for better software.
They see as basic principle for becoming a professional developer to be self-conscious about your work and always try to improve yourself as well as to adhere to some common best practices and working principles. Trying to lead developers to more professionalism, they have also collected a lot of concrete recommendations for the day to day work. To make it easier to follow these practices and rules, all recommendations are grouped by a so-called grade system. So you can start with the easy ones and get to the maybe not so easy to follow rules later.
Even if you don’t agree to all suggested practices and principles, the side is definitely worth a read since you will find a lot of good practices concentrated on one location. Additionally, they also maintain a link list for useful tools and frameworks.
You can find the Clean Code Developer initiative here.
Turn off your step-thru debugger
A good point and definitely contains some trues:
„If you get in the habit of using a debugger,“ my mentor pointed out, „you’ll get lazy. A certain part of your brain shuts off, because you expect the debugger to help you find the bug. But in reality, you wrote the bug, and you should be able to find it.“
Still stunned, I asked: „What do you do when you have a really nasty bug?“
He said something I’ll never forget. „I make the machine tell me where it is.“
Make the machine tell you where the bug is. What a wonderful piece of advice. It’s the essence of troubleshooting, whether you’re trying to fix a car that won’t start, trace an electrical fault, or debug a piece of software.