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Things to consider when your web app has a worldwide audience.
Most tutorials you find online for building apps & websites take the (mostly correct) greenfield approach in order to not introduce a bunch of extra complexity and distraction. But what if your app does take off? What if you look in your analytics and start seeing visitors from parts of the world you’re unfamiliar with? […]
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My Code Quality Challenge
I have an honest question for you: “How good is your code?” It’s a hard question to answer, even for somebody like myself that has been writing code for 20 years or so. There’s a lot of nuance into what makes ‘good code’ and as your career progresses you’ll find that a lot of it […]
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The Value of Getting your Hands Dirty
As software developers we spend an inordinate amount of time both indoors and staring at glowing panes of glass while sitting firmly on our butts. Today I’m here to tell you to get off your ass! I’ve never been afraid of getting outside or digging in to some physical work. Though often in talking to […]
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I just shipped a single-page application without any frameworks and I feel fine
This past week I built a tool for a freelance client’s website that allows their visitors to find the nearest dealer for their products. The previous version of this tool was written in Classic ASP (which I also maintained) and pulled its data from an MS Excel spreadsheet. Yes, you read that right, an Excel […]
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Known Unknowns?
Recently I tweeted this: Left tonight’s tech talk with more questions than answers, trying to decide if that is a good thing or bad… — Wally Lawless (@Wallylawless) July 21, 2016 Afterwards I continued to wonder whether coming away from a tech talk with more questions than I started with was a good thing or […]