How We Badly Built Stuff

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This week we talk about all of the bad things we’ve done while making software. The good, the bad, … oh wait, it compiles, never mind.

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Airbrake Contest

Big thanks to Airbrake.io for sponsoring this episode. Airbrake provides a full stack error monitoring tool that alerts you to errors in your software, then helps you diagnose and fix them.

Survey

This episode’s survey asks: How fast is your _personal_ Internet connection?

News

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Allen stumbled upon a review for the MyDigitalSSD BPX, a much more affordable NVMe SSD (available at Amazon).
Allen has paused on the Hackintosh buid.
Allen is speaking at the Atlanta JavaScript Meetup, March 27, 2017. Join us there.
Joe is moving to Orlando!
New videos published to YouTube.
Give the 7DRL Challenge a go.

Stickers

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Things We Discussed

Database first approach
Popular frameworks/platforms
The three types of development: services, application/product, and line of business application
Declarative vs Procedural
Pitfalls of the database first approach
Are ORMs a pitfall? Do they promote a lack of boundaries?
The Lord of the Rings problem
- … one database to rule them all
- … or one ORM to rule them all
The repository pattern
What can we learn from the Linux architecture
- https://www.tutorialspoint.com/operating_system/os_linux.htm
- Or maybe Windows?
  - https://arstechnica.com/features/2012/10/windows-8-and-winrt-everything-old-is-new-again/5/
So, where do YOU start?
- DB? UI?
Pitfalls of the code first approach
Don’t worry about scale unless you actually need it
- The Majestic Monolith
SPAs vs web pages
- We went too far with SPAs
- jQuery was the golden age?
- Or should DOM Manipulation die?
- Ah, the days of frames and iframes
Domain Driven Design
Onion Architecture
Microservices
John Deere … wait, what?
- Build your own tractor
Treat yourself to a new video card. Specifically, the EVGA GeForce GTX 1080 (available at Amazon).

Resources We Like

We seem to mention the MVP a lot. Get your copy of The Lean Startup (available at Amazon) to learn more.

Tip of the Week

Bootstrap Studio – Mentioned by Joe Riedly and Paul Seal
- http://www.codeshare.co.uk/blog/how-to-create-a-responsive-website-without-knowing-how-to-write-code-bootstrap-studio/
- Also mentioned: https://mobirise.com/
Use Chrome’s Screenshot feature within the Network tab – Mentioned by Edward Lichtman
Edward in Slack – https://codingblocks.slack.com/team/elichtman
Edward on LinkedIn – https://www.linkedin.com/in/edwardlichtman/
Use Visual Studio Team Services free tier … free Git repos
- https://www.visualstudio.com/team-services/pricing/
https://regex101.com/ – A fiddle for your regex – Mentioned by Jamie Taylor

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