Christmas Gift Guide for Web Developers
Every professional software developer should be writing clean code, not only to help them improve but to also maintain their sanity and keep their projects from turning into a maintenance nightmare. Hop over to https://cleancoders.com and at the bottom of the page theres a bit to buy a gift card which you can print a PDF of and pop it in a card which tells them to start with the Uncle Bob series “Clean Code” (if they haven’t already started watching them!)
Sometimes, you have a book and you want to make notes in them. This can be annoying when either your notes are no longer relevant or you need to return the book to it’s owner. The solution is some transparent sticky notes! You can write all over anything and not mark the original document. This is good for dealing with things like spec documents and proposals, you can also use it to draw graffiti on holiday photos of people you don’t like.
Coffee is nice, on that we can all agree. What isn’t nice is getting lost in a project for 45 minutes and then remembering about your coffee, taking a sip of it and discovering it’s now colder than a Penguin’s flipper! This problem is easily rectified by owning a USB coffee mug heater! It literally does what you think it does.
4: Books.
At first, I was totally against owning programming books. They go out of date quickly and they’re generally not very well written. I thought PDF’s were ok but… they’re kinda awful to read and don’t really feel like a gift, then I found some books that are worth owning and that would be worth taking space on any self-respecting programmer’s bookshelf. Two of these books are:
Build Api’s You Won’t Hate by Phil Sturgeon https://leanpub.com/build-
The Clean Coder by Robert C. Martin http://www.bookdepository.com/
- Andrew Willis
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