Programming pillars
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This document outlines programming pillars and advice for programmers. It discusses accepting that all work builds on others, planning ahead instead of limiting options, documenting code to reduce questions and automating tasks. Programmers are advised to use their own creations, share code openly and help others in order to improve skills and gain recognition. The key pillars are to plan for the future, reduce workload through documentation and automation, use your own solutions, and showcase your work.
Programming pillars
- 2. Nobody is perfect Accept the following two truths: Everything you do will be based on someone else’s work There will always be someone better than you
- 3. Why Why are you doing what you’re doing? Wealth Turf Vanity
- 4. What does it mean to be “Good” In the old days: LAMP 5 points in Linux 10 points in Apache 15 points in MySQL 15 points in Javascript 20 points in CSS 35 points in PHP (Wordpress, Joomla, Drupal, Wix, Prestashop, Magneto, & Bitrix) = 100 points (squarespace allows no server-side code; Shopify is Ruby; blogger is python – and that’s the top 10 CMS’s from 2019)
- 5. What about now? Linux Apache/Nginx SQL HTML5/CSS – UI/UX – Accessibility MVCs – Catalyst/Moose/Perl – Django/Python Gitlab/CI Virtualisation – Virtualbox – Docker/Docker- compose – Kubenetes/helm Puppet Rancher/Kubectl Angular/TypeScript
- 6. Plan for Tomorrow Think beyond the immediate need Don’t box yourself in “The best use of your data will be thought of by someone else”
- 7. Reduce Your Workload Write good documentation – Documentation is to stop idiots asking stupid questions Write useful comments – Comments are to remind you what the clever code does Automate, Cooperate, and Share – Reflected glory isn’t such a bad thing
- 8. Eat Your Own Dogfood If you don’t use it.... why should anyone else? why would you maintain it? Why did you write it in the first place?
- 9. Show Off Share your code Make mistakes, and accept critique graciously Help others Talk about it Do you really think this is an original idea?
- 10. The Four Pillars For Programmers Plan for Tomorrow Reduce Your Workload Eat Your Own Dogfood Show Off