Death to Code Reviews
01 Apr 2021
Code reviews are one of the most common practices in software development, but there is a better way. I share the good and bad aspects of code reviews and a better way to do them.
Ryan Latta
Career Articles and Newsletters
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There Is No Best
31 Mar 2021
Experienced folks, leaders, and new developers share something in common. They fall in love with a specific technology. This favoritism leads to some fairly pointless debate and, at its worst, some poor decisions.
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Blame the Intern
27 Feb 2021
An article just surfaced on CNN where the top executives of SolarWinds essentially shifted the responsibility of a password leak to an intern. This infuriates me, but I think it serves as an excellent reminder of some hard truths about working for a company.
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Time To Go
23 Feb 2021
It winds up for almost everyone that you’ll have more than one job in your career. This is especially true in software development. For myself, I changed jobs nearly every single year! The shortest time I was at a company was five months, and the longest was two years. When you realize it’s time for you to go, what should you do?
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Taking Two Bites Of an Ice Cream Cone
15 Feb 2021
Often I wind up working with teams and managers who want to know more about how to get started with automated testing or realize their efforts are backfiring. For the last of those cases, it is almost always because they adopted the ice-cream anti-pattern of testing, but I teach two techniques that help them get back on track.
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Who Dropped the Ball?
02 Feb 2021
There are times throughout my career where I’ve taken an extreme stance on my responsibility as a developer. Ironically this approach was rarely met with accolades until well after the moments passed. So here are some of those stories. As you read them, I invite you to ask yourself what your responsibility is as a professional?