Category Archives: Humility

Video: Padawan to Jedi – A Developer Jump-Start (my presentation at Austin Code Camp 2011)

By ChrisEdwards | Published: September 15, 2011

Here is the video of my “Padawan to Jedi – A Developer Jump-Start” presentation I gave last week at the Austin Code Camp 2011. It touches on all the principles, patterns, practices, and such that I have learned in my many years being a developer. I designed the Padawan2Jedi talk to present knowledge in a […]

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Thou Shalt Not Love Thy Code

By ChrisEdwards | Published: August 14, 2006

On my most recent project I have learned a very humbling, yet very useful lesson. Never fall in love with your code, or it will be too hard to let go. In the Agile world, your code needs to adapt to changing requirements and the introduction of new features. When this happens, it just might […]

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