Captain Danko’s JavaScript Lab — Code Smarter with Tutorials, Frameworks & Dev Insights

I love writing code and during my undergraduate studies I had a chance to write code in many programming languages and while I enjoyed working with all of them, there was one language that I fell in love with. I call it first love and thankfully I had a chance to code in that language for most of my career after I finished uni. I worked with it for years and years, it would be my language of choice for any new project...until recently. In the last 12 months, certain (almost unavoidable) circumstances lead me to a choice which meant, I had a part ways with my first love for this particular project. In this post I will talk about what my first love was, the circumstances that made me part ways with it and what did I use instead of it. My First love During my undergraduate studies and when I was learning about programming, I was exposed to C++ , Java and C . I did not mind C so much, C++ I did not like it at the time and I loved working with Java. Yes yes, I know it's very ver...

So for my main contract, I am working on a fairly large and a complex system i.e. it has many moving parts. So in addition to the large code-base that I have to maintain, the project also makes use of several libraries i.e.  jar files written by various teams of developers at a different location to where I work. However even though completely undocumented,  I do have access to the source code for most of those jar files. It is a Java based system which uses the Spring framework  and Maven , amongst other things. Problem As I mentioned this system has many moving parts and often when I have to add a new component to it, I rely on a few things from the jar files written by a team of developers far away. Every now and then, the changes made to those dependant jar files by the team of developers do not work or have some "sneaky" hard to find problems within them! so for code that I did not write, I need to find out why isn't it working? is it possible for me to f...