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Andy Callaghan

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13 Jul 2018

Defensive Modern Javascipt

At work I’ve been recently exposed to a large and complicated React application written in ES6. Of all the refactoring I’ve been undertaking, I have noticed that there was not much defensiveness built into the classes and functions. By defensive programming, I mean writing the code in such a way that expects it to fail, and gracefully handles common and recurring problems in JS. You do this so your application will continue regardless of any unforeseen problems that occur.

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26 Jun 2018

Cleaning up local git repos

We often get to a point where we have billions of local git repositories that have been merged already, or abandoned - it’s often difficult to see the wood from the trees.

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18 Jun 2018

The Good Programmer

Have you thought about what makes a good programmer? I mean have you sat down and thought hard about what it means? Of all the programmers you’ve met in your (maybe long) career, which ones were ‘good’ and why?

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