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Cedar Rapids, Iowa
67 Posts
  • 31 Days of Refactoring

    Refactoring is an integral part of continually improving your code while it moves forward through time. Without refactoring you accrue technical debt, forget what portions of code do and create code that is resistant to any form of testing. It is an easy...
  • How do you know your code works?

    [Warning: shameless Austin plug and a bunch of  namedropping] Shortly after New Years, I was sitting outside (in a t-shirt, by the way) at an Irish Pub (or as close as we can get here in Ausitn), sipping Guinness with Scott Bellware and Rod Paddock...
  • My Favorite System Deploy Story

    I just remembered this and regaled the newer members of the team with this amazing story that happened when we rolled out our new enterprise lab management system a few years ago. The end result of all of our processes basically is a pretty report that...
  • Quit Living in the Past - Practices Evolve

    In 1846 it wasn't a required practice for medical professionals to wash their hands or equipment when treating a patient. In 1847, Ignaz Semmelweis experimented and discovered that incidences of maternal death from Puerperal fever at Vienna General Hospital...
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