Want to improve yourself as an engineer? Looking for tips & tricks to empower yourself as a teammate or individual contributor? There are a few things that you can do at any point in your career that will help. There's a reason that professional athletes frequently preach the importance of fundamentals - while it may seem like common sense, now, it's only been recently through the application of science to sports that experts have begun to understand how practice quite literally makes perfect...| www.jamessimone.net
My manager and I met up the other morning for a paired programming session. We had two possible things to work on and decided to embrace Kent Beck's 'start small, or not at all,' by focusing on a seemingly innocuous task -- adding the disabled attribute to a lightning-button in one of our Lightning Web Components (LWC). Even with strict adherence to TDD, this is a task that should take only a few minutes; it's not a complicated component, and the change is extremely straightforward. Would it ...| www.jamessimone.net