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Tag: productivity


I’ve recently had many conversations related to developer productivity. In order for a developer to be productive, he must have control over enough of the application lifecycle to complete his work. When a developer gets stuck at any point in the application lifecycle, his productivity drops, which can often reduce morale too. One question I’ve been asking is: how much of the application lifecycle needs to fall under the scope of the developer? In other words, how broad is the scope of the application lifecycle that needs to be available to a developer......

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PHP CodeSniffer and Mess Detecter in Netbeans

Code quality and structure becomes extremely significant as the number of developers on a project increases. It can also be helpful when the code is maintained or refactored infrequently. In both cases, it can reduce the time required to get your head back in the code. Today I found a plugin for Netbeans that uses phpMD and PHP CodeSniffer to examine the code for a project and make recommendations to improve it. The feedback is visible in the tasks panel and will take you right to the place it suggests you change. Here’s......

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One disappointment of developing for Wicket and Google App Engine (GAE) is that the automatic monitoring and reloading of modified HTML files didn’t work. It had something to do with the single threaded nature of the GAE platform. I had found a few previous efforts to make this work, but none of them worked with the current version of Wicket and GAE. I went without it for a while, but restarting the web server after every markup change finally drove me to figure it out. Working with the project that I setup using......

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Software licensing: The value of good books

I have a large budget for books (but thanks to Amazon it doesn’t have to be as big as it could be). Sure it’s true that most of the information in programming books is online and available for free. There may even be substance to the argument that most books are out of date as soon as they hit the shelf because technology moves so fast. Oh well. I get huge value from books. They save me many hours of time that I might spend scouting around for a snippet here or an......

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