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My Personal Three S’s of Development

June 3, 2015 by joecodes 1 Comment

In the lead-up to Apple’s WWDC next week with the supposed focus on quality I thought this would be a timely topic.

Over the years I feel like I’ve learned a thing or two about building new systems. “New systems” is a generic term you can apply to just about anything you do. This could apply to adding a new feature to a car, or coming up with a new idea for an app, or anything in your field of interest or expertise. While the shiny and whiz-bang features get all the attention, none of it matters one bit if the development of this new thing doesn’t start with the following three S’s.

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Filed Under: Programming Tagged With: Apple, security, speed, stability, WWDC

Quick Thoughts

  • I was surprised to learn that foreach in JavaScript does not have a traditional break. The loop will run to completion.

  • Who knew that combination sums across all permutation lengths of an array would be so difficult? It was a challenge but the final product looks good and takes a lot of resources. Limiting the max length for basic memory limits. Would only do something like this for occasional reporting.

  • Working on a new project that can have hundreds of forms on a page. The browser was spending way too much time in Parse HTML. Wasted a bunch of time before learning this is a long-standing bug in Chrome when there are many forms or inputs. Other browsers are fine.

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