Mentorship

Legacy code — keep your sanity

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Legacy code — keep your sanity
In this article, I am not trying to provide any technical tips for handling an old project. It aims to offer a few ideas to follow if you want to keep your sanity while being assigned a legacy project. We are going to take a look at what roughly makes up a legacy and try to find why it may not be as bad as it looks at the first glance.

A software developer mentor’s advice to mentees

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A software developer mentor’s advice to mentees
As a software developer, there is a high possibility of finding yourself in a mentoring relationship. Whether it is a formal or informal one, mentorship might be overwhelming especially if it is the first one you are engaged in. In this article, I am trying to give some pointers on easily navigating this experience and getting as much as possible from it.