This week I was searching for an article to write about and I stumbled upon an article from Codecademy sharing the story of Juan Paredes, a Full-Stack Engineer from Mexico. The article is an interview of sorts where Juan has responded to prompts related to his journey from a Call Center Supervisor to a Full-Stack […]

While I was perusing for an article to write about this week I found this interesting blog post posing the question, “Why SOLID principles are still the foundation for modern software architecture”. The post is written by Daniel Orner, a Software engineer from the likes of Flipp and formerly IBM. Daniel starts by explaining what […]

This week I was viewing the syllabus topics and found a short article written by Rosie Faulkner, LAMP stack developer, where she describes the principle of least knowledge relating to software development. Rosie coins the principle of least knowledge as “One of the most important software design principles” and defines the principle as “loose coupling, […]

This week I have decided to view a source regarding APIs since that has been our focus in class recently. I had come across an article written by Jordan Ambra, an experienced software engineer from Pennsylvania, describing a few “rules” to keep in mind to create the best API possible and better maintain its health […]

Since we have been discussing refactoring in class recently, it got me interested in finding out more about what makes refactoring… well “refactoring”. I found this interesting article “Refactoring vs. Defactoring” by Nicolas Carlo, a French-Canadian Software Engineer, which describes the difference between refactoring and debugging while also introducing the idea of “defactoring”. The article […]