Hi, my name is Igor and I’m going to tell you a story about the very first task I completed in a commercial SWE setting. I was a lil baby, full of hope and wonder. Eager to be productive and getting paid the big bucks. “You’re working as part of...

Our newly built Web UI is great for listing items, but “Read” is only 25% of “CRUD”. We need to build a “configuration wizard” to add new items to the list. The configuration wizard is merely a bunch of input fields, with some validation and CSS slapped on top. We...

A long time ago in a galaxy far away, Google Chrome did not have a monopoly on browsers. So web developers needed to be careful about supporting different browsers, and work with the lowest common denominator of features. So we needed a way to tell people the website is not...

One day, working on a CRUD, I receive a bug report: After moving an item, and then deleting it, the item doesn’t get deleted. Okay, that is odd. Could it be that we’re caching something? I trace all of the DB calls, and I definitely see three things: move, delete,...