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We always want to do the right thing right, right? There is only one way to do that, increase the efficiency and effectiveness. First we need to understand the difference between the two, since a lot of people including my past self confuse the two. Even though these work hand in hand one does not imply the other. That is you can have a company which is effective but not efficient. Efficiency is about functioning in the best possible manner with the least waste of time and effort. It usually can be expressed as a percentage of the input and output. Effectiveness has to do with the end product or result. Essentially being effective is about doing the right things, while being efficient is about doing things right.  In the…

You I recently read a book by uncle Bob, which is a must read for every developer. It’s called Clean Code and it completely revolutionised the way I think about code. In particular when coding I am now much more careful about meaningful names, numbers of parameters to pass to a function, the number of lines of code per function, use of comments, error handling and tests. Why should code be clean? Before we get to that I think we should start by asking the question what is code? In reality code is just documentation. Yep, that’s all we do, write documentation all day long. More than anything code is the best and most unambiguous specification document of the solution. We have all been in this situation: It’s the start of a…