Just in time for the vacation season, here comes our latest round of recommended reads from the world of software development. This edition of Dev Breakfast focuses on an underappreciated, but nevertheless critical part of the development process: Documentation.
Meet our curator of the month
Denisis a senior full-stack developer at Futurice, where he started his career over 7 years ago. In addition to coding, he is passionate about practices and tools which improve delivery quality and developer experience. Outside of work, he likes to read about various topics, and to play board and video games with his wife and friends.
The value of good documentation is often not fully apparent at the time it is written, but it is a gift that keeps on giving in the longer term. This article makes these future benefits clear and provides guidance on how to integrate documentation into your team’s work.
Documenting usually means writing - a skill that is often neglected in developer education. Heinrich Hartmann shares some of the learnings from the writing experience he gained during his long career.
Dispelling the myth of “self-documenting code”, this article explains when and how good comments can give readers valuable insights that even the cleanest code cannot provide by itself.
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