Corey McCarty articles - 34 total
Hacktoberfest
What is Hacktoberfest? Hacktoberfest is an effort by Digital Ocean to increase involvement...
Pitching Ideas to Developers
There's a trope among developers of the people that have a "great idea" for an app or website, but no...
Coding Challenge with Clean Code
After studying Uncle Bob's Clean Code and trying to practice it as much as possible, I find that it...
Career Advancement
Once you have figured out a way into your first software development role, it is only logical that...
Uncle Bob - Lesson One
This material is a summary of a talk by Uncle Bob that I watched on YouTube Regardless of age,...
Who is Uncle Bob
After spending several hours listening to his talks, it occured to me that this information is needed...
Use the Tools To Your Advantage
I see several content creators doing things in their posts that are easily done with the tools built...
New Tools
Over the last couple of weeks I've had various people that I respect suggesting different tools to me...
New Job New Tools
I recently started a new job, and it's only the second that I've had in my dev career. With a fresh...
What Makes a Good Developer?
I hear questions like this one at least once per week. To be fair, that may have something to do with...
Productive Mentoring
In order to advance as a developer you need more than just online resources. The most common question...
Carpe Diem
Cover image by undraw.co Jobs come and go, and the long reaching career is each of our goals. How we...
Be Excitable
All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy One of the biggest issues with getting older is that it's...
Testing Difficulties
Cover image by undraw.co My team owns 16 applications that act as a single system managing a large...
I Am Privileged
Cover image from Paris Musees Collections I grew up in a white middle-class home with both of my...
Writing Better Code
Cover image by undraw.co What are ways that we can write better code? As clean code is something...
Know YOUr Brand
Cover image by undraw.co While working on my resume, I've had a TON of good advice from a the Slack...
Bullet Journaling Basics
As a developer with ADHD I've found myself frequently talking about bullet journaling. It has become...
Agility and Improvement
Agile (Capital A) is something that many/most software development teams are adopting, whether that...
I'm Corey McCarty, and I support women devs.
I find it hard to understand that sexism still exists in 2020. I have multiple women in development l...
Always Be Learning
Cover image by undraw.co It's a recurring theme among tech communities to reflect and offer advice...
Logging Improves Quality of Life
Cover image by undraw.co I found a pretty good explanation of logging in the comment thread of this...
Community
Cover image by undraw.co In this information age, driven largely by social media and online...
Wholeness of Life
Cover image by undraw.co We often talk about what makes a good developer and how to deal with things...
My Introduction to Jenkins
Cover image by undraw.co Last fall I had the joy of working through a PI in my company's cloud...
Writing Pitfalls
Cover image from created by pikisuperstar - www.freepik.com I've been working since New Year's...
What Text Editors Do You Use?
Cover image by undraw.co When your work involves typing and manipulating data files with many...
Blogging Goals
Cover image by undraw.co I was reading How To Make Dev Better In 2020 and thought that it would be...
Markdown Style
While writing about using Markdown to boost productivity in note taking I thought that maybe some...
Using Markdown for Notes
I recently found myself with four different files opened long term in Notepad++ that all centered...