Johnathon

Wright

I'm working on an app that asks for oauth permission from Google and other orgs. The workflow for getting tokens to act as another user via oauth is: 1. Get a key and a secret from the other party. 2. redirect the user to the other party with parameters including your token and what you want permission to do. You also send back a...

I had an interesting discussion with a client recently. I had used the word "legacy" to refer to parts of their codebase. They then repeated the word, but with somewhat more negative connotation. So I'm writing here to firm up my definition of what it means to be legacy. Here are some thoughts I got from a Slack channel: • it's not a good...

In early 2004, Nikhil Kothari wrote about three personas Microsoft came up with while working on Visual Studio 2005. Mort, Elvis and Einstein. I have my own list. As a tech lead, I talk to my team about programmer architypes. We all have many traits within is... and these can be good when used at the right time, but bad when used at the wrong...

One of the most important skills that differentiate an upper-mid-level developer from a lower-mid-level developer is the ability to write readable code. One strategy for increasing the readability of your code is to use something I've heard referred to as "executable comments" -- writing your code so that the variable names and structure give...