Software has a weight. In a totally abstract digital sense, we can create software code that is heavy with excessive lines of code that perform circuitous (sometimes inefficient, often overly-labored) ...

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I have gone through “Uncle Bob” Martin’s new book, Clean Code, which is a lenthy presentation of rules that will help Java developers write better code. It’s similar to Kent Beck’s Implementation ...

Clean code — a term first coined by Robert C. Martin in his book ‘Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile craftmanship’ — is very relevant in today’s fast-paced, highly complex software development and ...

I usually try to follow the advice of the book Working Effectively with Legacy Code. I break dependencies, move parts of the code to @VisibleForTesting public static methods and to new classes to make ...

Spaghetti is good eating but bad programming. Follow these 10 best practices to keep your C# code clean, lean, and easy to maintain. “Spaghetti code” is a term used to describe poorly organized, ...

Spread the loveEver felt that sinking feeling when you look at a block of code you wrote months ago, and it just… makes no ...

Can you explain object-oriented programming to me like I'm 5 years old? Probably not. But here's a straightforward explanation of what OOP is ... Use Spring MVC MultipartFile, Java Path APIs and the ...

The latest trends in software development from the Computer Weekly Application Developer Network. This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Timothy Gilboy in his ...