The Cat Ate My Source Code

In this episode we go over the 6th chapter of The Pragmatic Programmer, discussing the hazards of programming by coincidence and how to write tests that ease the pain of refactoring with special guest Software Engineer, Steve Kiley.

In this episode we go over the 5th chapter of The Pragmatic Programmer, discussing building a flexible architecture and making your application higly configurable.

In this episode we go over the 4th chapter of The Pragmatic Programmer, discussing contracts, exceptions, and resource management.

Continuing with the second chapter of The Pragmatic Programmer, we discuss tracer bullets, prototyping, and estimation techniques with special guest Product Manager, Alex Wang.

Starting the second chapter of The Pragmatic Programmer, we discuss the evils of duplication, orthogonality in software engineering, and considering reversibility when making architectural decisions.