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Coding Guideline : Methods shouldn't contain more than 7 statements?

c# coding-standards maintainability

answered Feb 27, 2012 at 15:39

62 votes

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Doesn't "if (0 == value) ..." do more harm than good?

coding-style

answered Nov 5, 2010 at 0:39

60 votes

Stuff every programmer needs while working

development-environment

answered Oct 12, 2010 at 19:21

24 votes

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How do you handle multiple users editing the same piece of data in a webapp?

design web-development design-patterns web-applications

answered Jan 18, 2013 at 13:57

21 votes

Modern programming language with intuitive concurrent programming abstractions

programming-languages concurrency high-level modern

answered Nov 22, 2011 at 18:41

19 votes

A free game-development language?

game-development

answered Dec 23, 2011 at 13:42

18 votes

What were the Design Patterns of the procedural programming era?

history procedural structured-programming

answered Jun 18, 2013 at 16:12

17 votes

Should we ever delete data in a database?

database maintenance

answered Aug 2, 2012 at 17:33

16 votes

At what point is it taboo to have loops within loops?

coding-style coding-standards loops indentation

answered Dec 23, 2015 at 13:10

15 votes

How to communicate that insertion order matters in a map?

java code-quality map

answered Oct 31, 2017 at 15:38

15 votes

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When not to use Spring to instantiate a bean?

java spring

answered Oct 10, 2012 at 13:13

14 votes

Is the agile approach too much of a convenient excuse for cowboys

agile cowboy-coding

answered Oct 12, 2010 at 12:44

13 votes

How can I really master a programming language?

programming-languages

answered Sep 19, 2012 at 15:09

12 votes

What to call requirements that are "assumed"/"invisible"/"very obvious"

requirements specifications

answered Oct 16, 2013 at 15:31

11 votes

How can I deal with the cargo-cult programming attitude?

teaching

answered Nov 30, 2011 at 13:54

9 votes

Are long methods always bad?

readability methods

answered Oct 15, 2012 at 12:11

9 votes

Hiring developers - listing IDE as a requirement?

ide

answered Oct 15, 2012 at 15:30

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Designs and practices to guard against erroneous null entries from database

design-patterns object-oriented-design database-design patterns-and-practices null

answered Jan 5, 2016 at 15:03

8 votes

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Best practice for Restful API that perform heavy calculations (Image Processing)

rest performance api node.js image-processing

answered Dec 4, 2015 at 13:53

8 votes

Does TCP guarantee packet transmission time?

networking

answered Dec 10, 2014 at 20:00

8 votes

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Should database-models (conceptual or physical) be reviewed by DBAs?

architecture database-design application-design relational-database dba

answered Jan 9, 2013 at 17:53

8 votes

How have languages influenced CPU design?

language-design history optimization hardware assembly

answered Jul 30, 2012 at 20:48

8 votes

How much help should I give during technical interviews?

interview

answered Aug 2, 2012 at 20:40

8 votes

How to quickly search through a very large list of strings / records on a database

database algorithms data-structures indexing

answered Nov 9, 2011 at 18:57

7 votes

When would polling for events be better than using observer pattern?

design-patterns

answered Aug 22, 2011 at 12:39

7 votes

Are debugging skills important to become a good programmer?

debugging

answered Dec 23, 2010 at 17:04

7 votes

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Rails 2.x and conventions vs. "enterprise" architecture

ruby-on-rails

answered Apr 11, 2011 at 15:29

7 votes

Which applications have driven the mass spread of floating point units?

history

answered Mar 7, 2012 at 17:16

7 votes

What exactly does it mean that storing “large blobs in the database reduces performance”?

database database-design sql-server file-systems sharepoint

answered Oct 8, 2013 at 15:21

7 votes

How to design my code so that it can use alternative information to help create an object

design design-patterns

answered Mar 24, 2014 at 19:54

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Coding Guideline : Methods shouldn't contain more than 7 statements?

Doesn't "if (0 == value) ..." do more harm than good?

Stuff every programmer needs while working

How do you handle multiple users editing the same piece of data in a webapp?

Modern programming language with intuitive concurrent programming abstractions

A free game-development language?

What were the Design Patterns of the procedural programming era?

Should we ever delete data in a database?

At what point is it taboo to have loops within loops?

How to communicate that insertion order matters in a map?

When not to use Spring to instantiate a bean?

Is the agile approach too much of a convenient excuse for cowboys

How can I really master a programming language?

What to call requirements that are "assumed"/"invisible"/"very obvious"

How can I deal with the cargo-cult programming attitude?

Are long methods always bad?

Hiring developers - listing IDE as a requirement?

Designs and practices to guard against erroneous null entries from database

Best practice for Restful API that perform heavy calculations (Image Processing)

Does TCP guarantee packet transmission time?

Should database-models (conceptual or physical) be reviewed by DBAs?

How have languages influenced CPU design?

How much help should I give during technical interviews?

How to quickly search through a very large list of strings / records on a database

When would polling for events be better than using observer pattern?

Are debugging skills important to become a good programmer?

Rails 2.x and conventions vs. "enterprise" architecture

Which applications have driven the mass spread of floating point units?

What exactly does it mean that storing “large blobs in the database reduces performance”?

How to design my code so that it can use alternative information to help create an object