The New Best Practices

The New Best Practices
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The New Best Practices is a podcast about the process of creating software.

Episodes

  1. 11/15/2018

    Learning & Teaching Git

    Git is essential to our work as software developers, but it can be a tough technology to interact with. In this episode we discuss things that are good to know, and good to teach our team, so that we can all play happily together in version-control wonderland.

    38 min

  2. 08/30/2018

    Requirements

    How do we keep track of requirements? We talk about user stories, test cases and more. How can we know that we have completed a particular feature?

    53 min

  3. 05/20/2018

    Delivery

    How do we deliver software? We talk about git branching strategies, as well as automated and non-automated testing and deployment.

    53 min

  4. 03/30/2018

    Learning New Things

    In this episode we talk about learning new things. We discuss what got us interested in software in the first place, and how those original motivations still color how we approach learning. Should we learn new things just because we read about them on Hacker News? Should we dive deep and become an expert in a field, or is it just more fun to do new and different things?

    50 min

  5. 03/01/2018

    Monorepo

    Should your company put all of your code in one repository? What are the advantages and disadvantages of one vs. many source code repositories?

    38 min

  6. 01/20/2018

    Code Review

    In this episode, we talk about version control systems, pull requests, asynchronous work, automated checks, and accepting criticism. We also cover all possible parts of code review - early pull requests, pre-review comments, diff review, and manual testing.

    36 min

  7. 01/19/2018

    Code Comments

    How often should you leave code comments? Is it necessarily a failure to express yourself clearly in the code? Are code comments the best way to communicate with your team? Are your comments helpful, or just cathartic?

    54 min

  8. 01/18/2018

    YAGNI

    Are you building custom software? Are you adding extra features to work tool? Maybe You Arent Gonna Need It. In this episode we debate using off the shelf software vs. building your own. Is your company actually selling software? What is your business model? We also discuss unnecessary complexity in software and the impact this can have on quality.

    1h 1m

  9. 01/17/2018

    Points

    What are points in Software Developement? Join our hosts as we discuss how points can both useful and harmful when developing. In this episode we cover what points are, their relationship to velocity and how they help with estimates.

    28 min
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