97 Things Every Programmer Should Know

Chapter 46: Know Your Limits; Chapter 47: Know Your Next Commit; Chapter 48: Large, Interconnected Data Belongs to a Database; Chapter 49: Learn Foreign Languages; Chapter 50: Learn to Estimate; Chapter 51: Learn to Say, "Hello, World"; Chapter 52: Let Your Project Speak for Itself; Chapter 53: The Linker Is Not a Magical Program; Chapter 54: The Longevity of Interim Solutions; Chapter 55: Make Interfaces Easy to Use Correctly and Hard to Use Incorrectly; Chapter 56: Make the Invisible More Visible; Chapter 57: Message Passing Leads to Better Scalability in Parallel Systems; Chapter 58: A Message to the Future; Chapter 59: Missing Opportunities for Polymorphism; Chapter 60: News of the Weird: Testers Are Your Friends; Chapter 61: One Binary; Chapter 62: Only the Code Tells the Truth; Chapter 63: Own (and Refactor) the Build; Chapter 64: Pair Program and Feel the Flow; Chapter 65: Prefer Domain-Specific Types to Primitive Types; Chapter 66: Prevent Errors; Chapter 67: The Professional Programmer; Chapter 68: Put Everything Under Version Control; Chapter 69: Put the Mouse Down and Step Away from the Keyboard; Chapter 70: Read Code; Chapter 71: Read the Humanities; Chapter 72: Reinvent the Wheel Often; Chapter 73: Resist the Temptation of the Singleton Pattern; Chapter 74: The Road to Performance Is Littered with Dirty Code Bombs; Chapter 75: Simplicity Comes from Reduction; Chapter 76: The Single Responsibility Principle; Chapter 77: Start from Yes; Chapter 78: Step Back and Automate, Automate, Automate; Chapter 79: Take Advantage of Code Analysis Tools; Chapter 80: Test for Required Behavior, Not Incidental Behavior; Chapter 81: Test Precisely and Concretely; Chapter 82: Test While You Sleep (and over Weekends); Chapter 83: Testing Is the Engineering Rigor of Software Development; Chapter 84: Thinking in States; Chapter 85: Two Heads Are Often Better Than One; Chapter 86: Two Wrongs Can Make a Right (and Are Difficult to Fix); Chapter 87: Ubuntu Coding for Your Friends; Chapter 88: The Unix Tools Are Your Friends; Chapter 89: Use the Right Algorithm and Data Structure; Chapter 90: Verbose Logging Will Disturb Your Sleep; Chapter 91: WET Dilutes Performance Bottlenecks; Chapter 92: When Programmers and Testers Collaborate; Chapter 93: Write Code As If You Had to Support It for the Rest of Your Life; Chapter 94: Write Small Functions Using Examples; Chapter 95: Write Tests for People; Chapter 96: You Gotta Care About the Code; Chapter 97: Your Customers Do Not Mean What They Say; Contributors; Colophon;