Software development is a very broad field, but every software engineer should be well-rounded in all aspects of the process: designing, programming, testing, and delivering. It takes years to build strong skills. Furthermore, careers in software are often turbulent due to ever-changing technologies, high turnover, and interesting personalities. Below are resources to help.

Major Posts

• Copying File Paths from Finder in macOS
• Ignoring Files with Git
• Is #PayToSpeak Always Wrong?
• NuGet Quick Reference
• Purist vs. Pragmatist
• Should I Reject a Code Review for Typos?
• Sprint Planning Sucks. Can It Be Fixed?
• Static or Singleton

Angular

• Debugging Angular Apps through Visual Studio Code
• Missing Error Messages with Angular Testing

Quality Metrics 101

This is a series on useful metrics for measuring software quality.

1. Quality Metrics 101: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly
2. Quality Metrics 101: Test Quality
3. Quality Metrics 101: Process Quality
4. Quality Metrics 101: Product Quality

The Airing of Grievances

This is a fun, tongue-in-cheek series about best practices.

1. The Airing of Grievances
2. The Airing of Grievances: Software Development
3. The Airing of Grievances: Version Control
4. The Airing of Grievances: Test Automation Process
5. The Airing of Grievances: Test Automation Code
6. The Airing of Grievances: Selenium WebDriver
7. The Airing of Grievances: Agile
8. The Airing of Grievances: BDD

External Resources

• The Agile Manifesto
• Keeping a Changelog
• Laws of UX
• Learn X in Y Minutes for learning programming languages quickly
• Semantic Versioning
• Stack Overflow
• The Twelve-Factor App for building software-as-a-service apps
• Wikibooks for learning programming languages

Helpful Tools

• Atom for cross-platform lightweight text editing
• Eclipse IDE for Java and other languages
• Heroku, a platform-as-a-service for app hosting
• JetBrains IntelliJ IDEA IDE for Java and other languages (my favorite)
• JetBrains PyCharm IDE for Python (my favorite)
• LaTeX for mathematical typesetting
• Notepad++ for lightweight Windows text editing
• Postman for API testing
• Skitch for quick screen shot editing, including blurring
• tohtml.com for quick source code highlighting
• Visual Studio Code for lightweight-yet-powerful coding

Check out my other pages on Testing, BDD, and Python.