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Sunday sermon #3 - face to face code reviews loose their value
What are code reviews? Hopefully most of my readers whom are programmers are working in an environment where code reviews are part of the software development process. For those readers who have no idea what those are: code reviews are self-explainatory, it’s a process of reviewing changes (code) submitted by one member by other members working on the same project.
Mind you - such reviews were not so popular just a few years back but benefits of including them in software development pipeline made them adapted widely anywhere from open source communities to business teams.
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Hackaton - internal or external, a great thing to do regardless
1. What’s a hackathon Hackathon’s meaning is partially incuded in it’s name, hack + marathon, marathon of “hacking”.
It’s an event where large ammounts of developers/IT/design/management/etc experts meet together to work on a projects with the goal of finishing it in planned hackathon lenght (usually 24-72hrs). Those projects tend to have a theme selected by hackathon organizers, however the exact project ideas come from participants.
Is it, like, even popular?
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Sunday sermon #2 - help your project, use CI & automation
1. What’s CI CI stand for continous integration. The simplest way I could explain what it really is is with an example.
Say, you remember when you started your first coding related job, or maybe the second. Hopefully the company/environment provided you with opportunity to review code throughout the team. If so you may have noticed that often it is not the solution itself that takes the most time but the actual codereviews, discussions and merging that is the problem.
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