97 Things Every Programmer Should Know

Act with Prudence by Seb
Rose
Apply
Functional Programming Principles by Edward Garson
Ask
"What Would the User Do?" (You Are not the User) by Giles Colborne
Automate Your Coding Standard by Filip
van Laenen
Beauty Is in Simplicity by Jørn
Ølmheim
Before You Refactor by Rajith
Attapattu
Beware the Share by Udi
Dahan
The Boy Scout Rule by Uncle
Bob
Check
Your Code First before Looking to Blame Others by Allan Kelly
Choose Your Tools with Care by Giovanni
Asproni
Code in the Language
of the Domain by Dan North
Code Is Design by Ryan
Brush
Code Layout Matters by Steve
Freeman
Code Reviews by Mattias
Karlsson
Coding with Reason by Yechiel
Kimchi
A Comment on Comments by Cal
Evans
Comment
Only What the Code Cannot Say by Kevlin Henney
Continuous Learning by Clint
Shank
Convenience Is not an -ility by Gregor
Hohpe
Deploy Early and Often by Steve
Berczuk
Distinguish
Business Exceptions from Technical by Dan Bergh Johnsson
Do Lots of Deliberate
Practice by Jon Jagger
Domain-Specific Languages by Michael
Hunger
Don't Be Afraid to
Break Things by Mike Lewis
Don't Be Cute
with Your Test Data by Rod Begbie
Don't Ignore that Error! by Pete
Goodliffe
Don't
Just Learn the Language, Understand its Culture by Anders Norås
Don't
Nail Your Program into the Upright Position by Verity Stob
Don't Rely
on "Magic Happens Here" by AlanGriffiths
Don't Repeat Yourself by Steve
Smith
Don't Touch that Code! by Cal
Evans
Encapsulate
Behavior, not Just State by Einar Landre
Floating-point
Numbers Aren't Real by Chuck Allison
Fulfill
Your Ambitions with Open Source by Richard Monson-Haefel
The Golden Rule of API
Design by Michael Feathers
The Guru Myth by Ryan
Brush
Hard Work Does not Pay Off by Olve
Maudal
How to Use a Bug Tracker by Matt
Doar
Improve Code by Removing It by Pete
Goodliffe
Install Me by Marcus
Baker
Inter-Process
Communication Affects Application Response Time by Randy Stafford
Keep the Build Clean by Johannes
Brodwall
Know How to Use
Command-line Tools by Carroll Robinson
Know
Well More than Two Programming Languages by Russel Winder
Know Your IDE by Heinz
Kabutz
Know Your Limits by Greg
Colvin
Know Your Next Commit by Dan
Bergh Johnsson
Large
Interconnected Data Belongs to a Database by Diomidis Spinellis
Learn Foreign Languages by Klaus
Marquardt
Learn to Estimate by Giovanni
Asproni
Learn to Say "Hello,
World" by Thomas Guest
Let Your Project
Speak for Itself by Daniel Lindner
The Linker
Is not a Magical Program by Walter Bright
The Longevity
of Interim Solutions by Klaus Marquardt
Make
Interfaces Easy to Use Correctly and Hard to Use Incorrectly by Scott Meyers
Make the Invisible
More Visible by Jon Jagger
Message
Passing Leads to Better Scalability in Parallel Systems by Russel Winder
A Message to the Future by Linda
Rising
Missing
Opportunities for Polymorphism by Kirk Pepperdine
News
of the Weird: Testers Are Your Friends by Burk Hufnagel
One Binary by Steve
Freeman
Only the Code Tells the
Truth by Peter Sommerlad
Own (and Refactor) the
Build by Steve Berczuk
Pair Program and Feel
the Flow by Gudny Hauknes, Ann
Katrin Gagnat, and Kari Røssland
Prefer
Domain-Specific Types to Primitive Types by Einar Landre
Prevent Errors by Giles
Colborne
The Professional Programmer by Uncle
Bob
Put Everything
Under Version Control by Diomidis Spinellis
Put
the Mouse Down and Step Away from the Keyboard by Burk Hufnagel
Read Code by Karianne
Berg
Read the Humanities by Keith
Braithwaite
Reinvent the Wheel Often by Jason
P Sage
Resist
the Temptation of the Singleton Pattern by Sam Saariste
The
Road to Performance Is Littered with Dirty Code Bombs by Kirk Pepperdine
Simplicity Comes from
Reduction by Paul W. Homer
The Single
Responsibility Principle by Uncle Bob
Start from Yes by Alex
Miller
Step
Back and Automate, Automate, Automate by Cay Horstmann
Take Advantage
of Code Analysis Tools by Sarah Mount
Test
for Required Behavior, not Incidental Behavior by Kevlin Henney
Test Precisely and Concretely by Kevlin
Henney
Test
While You Sleep (and over Weekends) by Rajith Attapattu
Testing
Is the Engineering Rigor of Software Development by Neal Ford
Thinking in States by Niclas
Nilsson
Two Heads Are
Often Better than One by Adrian Wible
Two
Wrongs Can Make a Right (and Are Difficult to Fix) by Allan Kelly
Ubuntu Coding for Your
Friends by Aslam Khan
The Unix Tools Are
Your Friends by Diomidis Spinellis
Use
the Right Algorithm and Data Structure by JC van Winkel
Verbose
Logging Will Disturb Your Sleep by Johannes Brodwall
WET Dilutes
Performance Bottlenecks by Kirk Pepperdine
When
Programmers and Testers Collaborate by Janet Gregory
Write
Code as If You Had to Support It for the Rest of Your Life by Yuriy Zubarev
Write Small
Functions Using Examples by Keith Braithwaite
Write Tests for People by Gerard
Meszaros
You Gotta Care about the
Code by Pete Goodliffe
Your
Customers Do not Mean What They Say by Nate Jackson

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