Avoid the perils of coder customers

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Coders are the worst customers ever. The sooner you wrap your head around that, the better. Actually, any customer that’s technical is a bad customer, but nothing trumps coders. That fact is not intuitive, or at least wasn’t for me, but it can be really painful to find it out by yourself. So here, I [...]

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Stop Coding in the Middle Ages

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Aren’t you sick of wasting your time, your team’s time and precious build cycles for finding the stupidest mistakes ever? I know I’m far more interested in solving the real problems at hand than chasing stupid syntax errors. And even if you don’t mind, you really shouldn’t let your teammates substitute for a decent tool.
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Less Code is More

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As coders, we should always strive to get as much feedback as soon as possible. Agile tells us we should get frequent feedback from our customers in order to make sure we’re always on track. Unit testing and the green-bar loving are all about knowing exactly when your code breaks and when you’re safe.
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