Who Loves Their Developers More(coderjournal.com)

submitted by melzie215(35) 1 year, 9 months ago

Last night as I was talking with Danny Diaz about the importants of good programming language documentation. It occurred to me that the level of effort a company puts into its documentation is a direct reflection on how it sees the developer in relation to its products. If there is a lot of thought, love, and detail put into the documentation the company most likely cares very much about the developers experience from cradle to grave. If the documentation is haphazardly put together and no common UIX efforts were made then the company most likely cares very little about new developers, and only begrudgingly puts documentation online for its seasoned developers because it is the industry norm and is expected of them. read more...

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Creating a Time UUID (GUID) in .NET(www.coderjournal.com)

submitted by melzie215(35) 2 years, 1 month ago

Since we’re going to want to display lists of entries in chronological order we’ll make sure each Columns name is a time UUID and set the ColumnFamilys CompareWith to TimeUUIDType. This will sort the Columns by time satisfying our “chronological order” requirement. So doing stuff like “get the latest 10 entries tagged ‘foo’” is going to be a super efficient operation. read more...

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The difference between Routing and Rewriting(www.coderjournal.com)

submitted by melzie215(35) 2 years, 2 months ago

The benefits of a URL Rewriter have been explained many times, by many people, so I am not going to add just another rant to the web about keeping your URL’s clean for the search engines. I will just leave you with Jeff’s explanation of why you shouldn’t ignore the URL. Having multiple URLs reference the same content is undesirable not only from a sanity check DRY perspective, but also because it lowers your PageRank. PageRank is calculated per-URL. If 50% of your incoming backlinks use one URL, and 50% use a different URL, you aren’t getting the full PageRank benefit of those backlinks. The link juice is watered down and divvied up between the two different URLs instead of being concentrated into one of them. While Jeff only focuses on the reasons related to SEO, there are many other reasons to make your URL’s “look-and-feel” a hire priority. One that is often touted as a wonderful reason to use a URL Rewriter is to produce pretty looking URL’s, and even though this one of many reasons to use a rewriter, it is really a small part of why you want to have a URL Rewriter in your arsenal as a web developer. Other reasons include forcing your domain to a constant www vs non-www address, having helper URL’s such as http://www.microsoft.com/sql that redirect to their actual location, and many others. read more...

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