Discussion on: What are the tips or techniques you wish someone had told you ages ago?

[Debashis Dip]

In no particular order.

• Read the documentation before jumping into copying someone elses code.
• Add comments to the code for the future version of yourself.
• Don't be afraid to take a peek at library/framework source code.
• Testing is awesome, you should do it more.
• Commit frequently.
• You don't need to make the code scalable for 10m users when the maximum user base is only 10k
• Do not install beta version of some OS in the main development machine
• Take a full backup of your machine once in a while
• It's ok to not write codes like a ninja dev, If it works well and does the job as required then let it be
• Readability > Shortcuts