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* [Intro](intro)
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* [Disclaimer](disclaimer)
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* Programming
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* Before you start writing code...
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* [Spec First, Then Code](spec-first)
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* [Write Steps as Comments](steps-as-comments)
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* [Gherkin Is Your Friend to Understand Expectations](gherkin)
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* [Design Patters Are Used to Name Solution, Not Find Them](patterns-not-solutions)
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* [Thinking Data Flow Beats Patterns](data-flow)
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* [The Magic Number Seven, Plus Or Minus Two](magical-number-seven)
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* [Cognitive Cost Is The Readability Killer](cognitive-cost)
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* [Learn The Basics of Functional Programming](functional-programming)
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* [Shortcuts Are Nice, But Only In The Short Run](understand-shortcuts)
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* [Debuggers Are Overrated](debuggers)
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* Testing Software
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* [Unit Tests Are Good, Integration Tests Are Gooder](integration-tests)
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* [Testing Every Function Creates Dead Code](tests-dead-code)
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* [Tests Make Better APIs](tests-apis)
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* [Make Tests That You Know How To Run On The Command Line](tests-in-the-command-line)
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* [Good Languages Come With Tests](languages-tests)
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* Documenting your code
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* [Documentation Is A Love Letter To Your Future Self](document-it)
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* [The Function Documentation Is Its Contract](document-is-contract)
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* [If A Function Description Includes An "And", It's Wrong](document-and)
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* [Good Languages Come With Integrated Documentation](languages-docs)
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* Source Control
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* [Always Use A Version Control System](always-vcs)
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* [One Commit Per Change](one-change-commit)
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* Project Organization
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* [Organize Your Code by Data/Type, Not Functionality](project-organization)
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* [Create Libraries](libraries)
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* Writing code
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* [Be Ready To Throw Your Code Away](throw-away)
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* [Future Thinking Is Future Trashing](future-trashing)
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* [Don't Use Booleans As Parameters](boolean-parameters)
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* [Beware of Interface Changes](interface-changes)
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* [It's Better To Let The Application Crash Than Do Nothing](crash-it)
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* [If You Know How To Handle It, Handle It](handle-it)
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* [Types Say What Your Data Is](data-types)
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* [If Your Data Has a Schema, Use a Structure](use-structures)
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* [Don't Mess With Things Outside Your Project](outside-project)
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* [Resist The Temptation Of Easy](resist-easy)
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* [Start Stupid](start-stupid)
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* [Always Use Timezones With Your Dates](use-timezones)
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* [Always Use UTF-8 For Your Strings](use-utf8)
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* [Optimization Is For Compilers](optimization)
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* Making Things Go
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* [The Config File Is Friend](config-file)
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* [Command Line Options Are Weird, But Helpful](command-line-options)
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* [Not Just Function Composition, But Application Composition](application-composition)
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* [Even for Application Composition, Start Stupid](app-composition-stupid)
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* [Logs Are For Events, Not User Interface](log-events)
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* [Learn To Monitor](monitoring)
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* Community/Teams
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* [A Language Is Much More Than A Language](languages-are-more)
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* [Understand And Stay Away From Cargo Cult](cargo-cult)
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* ["Right Tool For The Job" Is Just To Push An Agenda](right-tool-agenda)
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* [The Right Tool Is More Obvious Than You Think](right-tool-obvious)
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