Clean Code

Introduction This is the second part of the “The 14 habits of highly effective developers” series. You can also read the first part here, or in dev.to In the first part of “The 14 habits of highly effective developers” series, we began showing the power of habits in a developer’s every day life and how can we benefit from incorporating simple yet crucial changes into our job, aiming to benefit the most and help leveling up our careers as software engineers. ...

Introduction Many believe that transitioning from an effective Junior-level developer to a mid-level is just a matter of time and experience. Truth is that the line separating these 2 kinds of developers is very thin and subjective. This article is not going to add more to the endless debate on “What exactly defines a mid-level developer”. To be honest, I firmly believe that something that can shift one’s mindset and help in transitioning one from a Junior to a Mid-level or Senior developer is habits: ...

This article uses Laravel for the code snippets, but the paradigm can be easily adapted to every other MVC framework out there. To make things more interesting, we will lay this article out by posting an imaginary conversation between 2 professionals: Stan, a seasoned developer, who has made many architectural mistakes (but thankfully seems to be learning from them), and Ollie, a novice developer, who just started delving into the world of serious programming and has some simple applications. ...