Practices Archives - Page 11 of 13

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How to Fight Coder’s Block: A Guide For New Devs

The dreaded coder’s block! Two simple words that ruined more beginning careers than the whole legion of distant relatives armed with “Just get on with your current job, sweetie, you’re…

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3 min

Five Tips To Stop Your Computers Slowing Down After Updates

“Please download an update” pops up on most people’s computers regularly, but many worry about doing just that in case their computer doesn’t work as well afterwards. Computer users install…

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3 min

To Avoid Cyberattacks, Companies Need To Think Like Hackers

Companies are spending more than ever on cybersecurity but, despite a plethora of new security systems, they continue to be vulnerable to attacks, which are not only becoming more numerous but are…

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18 min

What Was Your First Programming Language?

These 24 open source technologists share their programming origin stories. We asked our contributors What was your first programming language? but the question goes much deeper than that. There are stories to tell…

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4 min

How Different Programming Languages Read And Write Data

Every programming language has a unique way of accomplishing a task; that’s why there are so many languages to choose from. In his article How different programming languages do the same…

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4 min

How To Avoid Waste When Writing Code

“The more we can reduce waste in software development, the better off everyone will be.” The long road toward quality is filled with diversions, false starts, and detours. The enemy…

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4 min

A DevOps Guide To Documentation

Bring your documentation writing into the DevOps lifecycle. DevOps is challenging technical documentation norms like at no other time in IT history. From automation to increased delivery velocity to dismantling…

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6 min

What Traits Distinguish An Awesome Programmer

What distinguishes great programmers from good ones? It’s a question I’ve been wrestling with since I began learning to program. I’ve written previously about the skills and knowledge great programmers have. Now I’m…

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5 min

Start Programming In Racket By Writing A “Guess The Number” Game

Racket is a great way to learn a language from the Scheme and Lisp families. I am a big advocate of learning multiple programming languages. That’s mostly because I tend…

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DevOps On Google Cloud: Tools To Speed Up Software Development Velocity

Editor’s note: Today we hear from ForgeRock, a multinational identity and access management software company with more than 1,100 enterprise customers, including a major public broadcaster. In total, customers use the ForgeRock Identity…

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Practices

How to Fight Coder’s Block: A Guide For New Devs

Five Tips To Stop Your Computers Slowing Down After Updates

To Avoid Cyberattacks, Companies Need To Think Like Hackers

What Was Your First Programming Language?

How Different Programming Languages Read And Write Data

How To Avoid Waste When Writing Code

A DevOps Guide To Documentation

What Traits Distinguish An Awesome Programmer

Start Programming In Racket By Writing A “Guess The Number” Game

DevOps On Google Cloud: Tools To Speed Up Software Development Velocity

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