For most developers, maintaining and refactoring legacy code is all in a day’s work. But what about when the code was written by AI? Generative AI is no longer a novelty in the software development ...

Software has a weight. In a totally abstract digital sense, we can create software code that is heavy with excessive lines of code that perform circuitous (sometimes inefficient, often overly-labored) ...

I usually try to follow the advice of the book Working Effectively with Legacy Code. I break dependencies, move parts of the code to @VisibleForTesting public static methods and to new classes to make ...

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Premature optimization may be the root of all evil, but these tools will make sure your code is clear, clean and secure. Testing your application before shipping is an important part of the ...

Spaghetti is good eating but bad programming. Follow these 10 best practices to keep your C# code clean, lean, and easy to maintain. “Spaghetti code” is a term used to describe poorly organized, ...

Generative culture is the elusive noble quest of any tech-driven organization. Every founder, CIO and CTO pursues it, but too often it slips from their grasp. Generative culture helps you recruit and ...

The latest trends in software development from the Computer Weekly Application Developer Network. This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Timothy Gilboy in his ...

Some of the world’s most ancient languages and writing systems have yet to be deciphered, leaving scholars to search for additional artifacts and information that could yield breakthroughs. These ...