Programming Processes

by Hamid Mosalla on Best Practices, Coding Principles, Design Pattern, Programming, Programming Processes, Quality Assurance

C# Coding Conventions: Adapting a Standard to Your Team

When a team decides it needs a coding convention, the usual move is to borrow one from a big company, such as Microsoft’s C# conventions, the Airbnb JavaScript guide or one of Google’s style guides. That’s a sensible starting point. But each of those documents was written for one company’s team size, codebase and tools. … →

 
by Hamid Mosalla on Best Practices, Coding Principles, Design Pattern, Programming, Programming Processes

Programming Principles: DRY, KISS, SOLID, YAGNI and More

I’ve written before about the principle I use most when designing software, doing the simplest thing that could possibly work. This post collects the other programming principles and laws I keep returning to, from DRY and SOLID to Conway’s law and Brooks’s law. None of them can be applied mechanically, and several pull against each … →

 
by Hamid Mosalla on Programming, Programming Processes, Security

Application Secret Management: How to Implement a Good Secret Management Strategy

Sometimes bad things just happen, or perhaps they happen because of our neglect. Bad things like committing an application secret into our repository. The problem with doing that is that if that happens, deleting the secret and committing will not suffice. We need to purge that commit completely from our repository and its history. But … →