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Egoless Programming: You Are Not Your Job

The concept of egoless programming, as described by Johanna Rothman: Twenty-five years ago, Jerry Weinberg published The Psychology of Computer Programming. I discovered the book in 1977, and decided I wanted to work as an egoless software engineer, not as a radio disk jockey. Egoless programming occurs when a technical

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Code Reviews: Just Do It

In Humanizing Peer Reviews, Karl Wiegers starts with a powerful pronouncement: Peer review – an activity in which people other than the author of a software deliverable examine it for defects and improvement opportunities – is one of the most powerful software quality tools available. Peer review methods include inspections, walkthroughs, peer