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Articles about web development and computer programming

An archaeologist investigates some unusual hieroglyphs inside an Egyptian tomb

Automatically assessing code understandability: How far are we?

Forget LOC and cyclomatic complexity; can we just calculate the understandability of code directly?

Some Buy ORM employees trying to retrieve something for the customer in an inefficient way

How not to structure your database-backed web applications

ORM frameworks make your life a lot easier, but can just as easily lead to performance problems.

Two programmers with the dreaded wait cursor and beach ball in their heads

Do you remember this source code?

I’ll tell you what, I don’t even remember writing this article.

A very simple to use interface that is accompanied by a way too elaborate manual, and a complex interface that only comes with an empty sticky note

When not to comment: Questions and tradeoffs with API documentation for C++ projects

You want comments in your code, but probably not too many.

Developers queueing in line to have their code reviewed by an Arstotzka inspector

Characteristics of useful code reviews: An empirical study at Microsoft

Some tips that can help you streamline your code review pipeline.

Turrets being accepted or rejected on an assembly line

The impact of code review coverage and code review participation on software quality

You know about code coverage for tests, but code review coverage is just as important.

Kitchen with a flip clock, a calendar, and an analog wall clock

Datetime formatting in Go

Go’s time package takes a novel approach to defining datetime serialisation formats. Is it an improvement over existing alternatives?