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It’s Not Over Yet: Stories of an Aging Software Developer

Xebia

A construction worker’s body cannot take as much abuse at the age of 50 as it could at 20. But what about a software developer? This was in no small part due to the culture at Oracle. This seems to be a natural career path: Software developers become team leads, and team leads become managers or architects.

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8 Best Practices for Writing Clean and Maintainable Code

The Crazy Programmer

In the fast-paced world of software development, writing clean and maintainable code is not just a good practice; it’s a crucial factor in determining the success of a project. Code Organization Modularization: Breaking down your code into small, manageable modules is akin to organizing a cluttered room.

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TDD saved the day

Xebia

Sometimes, the coding task in front of you can be overwhelmingly complex. Armed with a few assumptions about how things should work, I embarked on developing an application with a graphical UI and a backend. To tackle each operation, I started with a small test, following the principles of Test-Driven Development (TDD).

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InnerSource, a practice that brings open-source principles to internal software development within organizations

Xebia

InnerSource can be defined as the application of open-source software development principles within an organization’s internal software development processes. It draws on the valuable lessons learned from open-source projects and adapts them to the context of how companies create software internally.

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3 Benefits of Outsourcing Healthcare Software Development

Invid Group

3 Benefits of Outsourcing Healthcare Software Development By INVID Healthcare companies have long recognized the value and importance of custom-built software to streamline processes, improve efficiency, and create better patient outcomes. Well-built software can make it easier for nurses and doctors to do their jobs.

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The hardest part of building software is not coding, it’s requirements

CIO

With all the articles about all the amazing AI developments, there’s plenty of hand-wringing around the possibility that we, as software developers, could soon be out of a job, replaced by artificial intelligence. The real problems are usually centered around what the software is supposed to do.

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Will enterprises soon keep their best gen AI use cases under wraps?

CIO

Normally, a CCO develops ideas about what the market needs and communicates them to a design team, which produces sketches to then be reviewed by the CCO. Helping software developers write and test code Similarly in tech, companies are currently open about some of their use cases, but protective of others.