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Author: Denis

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Woo Solo Api plugin version 2

It's funny how updating the changelog makes you see how much time passed between the last time I worked on it. I released the 1.9.6 version on May 18th, 2019.…
2020 Nov 22
Estimated reading time: 7 minutes
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Supercharge your development with code quality tools

Code quality is a debated subject. What is 'good code'? How can we recognize good code? Is there a handbook on what good code should look like? I participated recently…
2020 Oct 15
Estimated reading time: 8 minutes
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On mentoring

Mentoring is a great way to transfer knowledge. I'll give some tips and tricks, and show you the difference between mentoring and teaching.
2020 Aug 15
Estimated reading time: 11 minutes
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You’re stuck. Now what?

I wondered if I should write this article since, technically, I never had to be a 'one-man developer team'. All my developer life I've worked with other people. Luckily for…
2020 Jul 24
Estimated reading time: 13 minutes
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Keeping up with the dependencies

Service locator (SL) and dependency injection (DI) design patterns serve the same purpose. To make your code loosely coupled to have a better testable, maintainable, and extendable code. Both these…
2019 Jun 22
Estimated reading time: 7 minutes