Douglas
I don't really use a specific methodology, however I find it very useful to understand the most popular methodologies and when they are useful. Then it's helpful when you are at various stages of projects and know what kinds of approaches are helpful, and how you can apply them to your situation.
For example, I find Test Driven Design ( TDD) very much overkill, but for a mature codebase I find lots of testing invaluable. Early in a codebase I find lots of tests very restrictive, …
Even if you disagree with some of Douglas's assertions about how your code should be formatted, you should still use JSLint. You can opt out of the rules with preference setting or comments on the top of your JavaScript file.
I prefer using comments because it gets parsed in the same way when another developer works on you file. This prevents you from getting conflicting parsing results when one of your teammates sets different preferences.
To give you example, here are my standard …
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…more efficient working relationship. " New Relic is part of our culture," adds Douglas. "When I speak ‘ Apdex' with engineers, they totally get it. Both our developers and DevOps teams love the product. They may use different parts of the tool, but they both use the same interface creating faster, easier, more efficient communication across teams. Not all tools cans achieve that."
Douglas sums it up this way: " New Relic is essential to Zumba's ability …
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At long last, the fifth in my series of notes taken from keynotes at CUSEC 2010 , the 2010 edition of the Canadian University Software Engineering Conference. These are from Douglas " JavaScript: The Good Parts " Crockford's keynote in which he talks about how hard it is to make software. Doug is a senior JavaScript architect at Yahoo!, the guy behind JSON , wrote one of the first important pieces on JavaScript's unrealized power …
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Last week, I spent the run up to the Fourth of July up in Portland for NodeConf 2012. Held in the boho-boutique Jupiter Hotel / Douglas Fir Lounge / Imago Theatre complex, the show was a very different experience then some of the other Node conferences I've been to recently. Even though the event was completely sold out, there were only about 300 of us attending. Mikeal Rogers , the conference's lead organizer, was inspired by MaxFunCon and …
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