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Skill Up: A Software Developer's Guide to Life and Career

You're reading from Skill Up: A Software Developer's Guide to Life and Career 65 steps to becoming a better developer

Product type Paperback

Published in Jul 2017

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ISBN-13 9781787287037

Length 302 pages

Edition 1st Edition

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Soft Skills

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Jordan Hudgens

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Table of Contents (5) Chapters

Preface

I. Coder Skills

II. Freelancer Skills FREE CHAPTER

III. Career Skills

Index

Chapter 26. Freelancer Interviews – Practical Tips for Taking Over a Legacy Application

In this chapter, I interview a freelance developer that I have a tremendous amount of respect for, Derek Harrington. In fact, when I decided to launch DevCamp, I had to let go of a number of my freelance clients. And Derek was who I handed the majority of my clients to. Based on my experience with him over the years, I knew he would take great care of the clients and that they would be pleased with his expertise.

In this chapter, I ask Derek a few questions related to freelancing. Specifically, we discuss practical tips for taking over a legacy application.

Derek's tips can of course apply to any developer whether you're a freelancer or not in your current situation – which is why I recommend for any developer to learn from Derek's freelance approach to this common coding situation!

What is the first thing you do when you take over a legacy application?

Write tests...

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Authors (1)

Jordan Hudgens

Jordan Hudgens

Jordan Hudgens is a full-stack developer and the founder of DevCamp and the Bottega Code School. As a developer for over the past 15 years, he specializes in Ruby on Rails, React, Vue.js, and TypeScript with a focus on API development. He has built applications for a wide variety of organizations, including Eventbrite and Quip. He has published and maintains multiple open-source NPM modules that help individuals automate the development process for JavaScript and TypeScript applications. Additionally, he has published over 30 courses, taught 42,000 students globally, and written several programming books.

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