Hudson Burgess articles - 12 total
Do you practice TDD?
If so, what made you want to start? If not, why not?
How to systematically determine requirements?
My team has a serious problem with forgetting seemingly obvious requirements. The 1-2 weeks before a...
Making an Architectural Decision: A Live Example
A glimpse at my thought process, as it's happening
How much should you refactor names when domain terminology changes?
This is hard to explain in the abstract, so here's a hypothetical scenario: You're building an app t...
Good first steps for a JS style guide?
Right now I'm essentially the only frontend dev at my company, but we have plans to bring on one more...
Should we wrap critical built-in modules?
I've spent the last two weeks migrating one project from Angular's deprecated H...
Running on Fumes: Some Small Productivity Tricks
The past week of work has been unusually long and tedious. Just wanted to share a few small tips I’ve...
What heuristics do you use when developing a frontend testing strategy?
I'm currently on an Angular project with a decent sized test suite (~1000 tests), but it takes a long...
Code Like a Conversation: Basic Levels of Abstraction
Consider the following conversation: * at le Starbucks * Friend: “Hey Hudson!...
The Holy Grail of Good Software
The worst part of development Building software requires so many ste...
Scaffolding: Another Benefit of Clean Code
You’ve been asked to build a particular feature that depends on someone else’s work. Maybe that work is happening within your team, maybe not. Either way, it needs to be done as quickly as possible. What do you do?
7 Reasons You Should Be Using Test-Driven Development
If you aren’t familiar with it, test-driven development (TDD) is a software development practice wher...