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The objective of the Adapter pattern is to allow a client that expects a certain interface to work with an incompatible interface.

A checklist of things to make sure you do before going live on Twitch or similar.

A feature introduced last month by the GitHub team is called draft pull requests. When you create a Draft Pull Request, it cannot be merged until it is marked as ready for review. This is useful because often pull …

Have you ever been on a software team for a while, and then someone new joins the team and starts asking the usual questions about why this or that technology or pattern is being used on the project? Architecture …

This is obvious once you think about it but I’ve found many people haven’t thought about it so I’m going to lay it out here real quick. A lot of teams use some kind of task or kanban board today to …

Last updated: 13 October 2023 Recently in one of our great devBetter discussions, Rick Hodder (go follow him now) shared a cool extension for VS Code. Basically, it lets you turn VS Code into a REST client. Think of it …

I don’t know how I didn’t know about this before now, but apparently you can turn on autocorrect for your git command line, and it will accept (after a short delay in which you can cancel) commands that are …

Writing any significantly complex software application involves the use of encapsulation boundaries and abstractions. How many levels of such groupings do you have, and how many at each level?

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I’m home after surviving another great Codemash! I’m not sure how many Codemash events I’ve attended but I think it’s [ALL OF THEM] - 2 (looks like the first one was in 2007 so if my math is right …