Software Engineering Perspectives Articles

Michael Hines

Updated on March 25, 2025

Is it possible to do more by coding less?

These 21 experts share their best tips for fostering an environment that's proactive on cleaning up code.

Tammy Xu

Updated on March 25, 2025

Drift’s support rotation was born out of necessity — but that’s not why it’s still around.

Susan Maina

Updated on March 24, 2025

You can put a for loop inside an if statement (and vice versa) in Python using nested control flow. For loops complete an iterative action for a defined number of elements, while if statements test a condition and then complete an action.

Wai Foong Ng

Updated on March 24, 2025

ExcelJS is a JavaScript package for managing Excel spreadsheets and workbooks. It can be used to read, manipulate and write spreadsheet data to XLSX and JSON.

Jonathan Hsu

Updated on March 24, 2025

In programming, for loops are best used when you know the number of iterations ahead of time, whereas a while loop is best used when you don't know the number of iterations in advance. Both methods can help you iterate through your code.

Vikram Gupta

Updated on March 24, 2025

The git reset command modifies Git commit history and lets you return to a specific commit with three options: --soft keeps changes staged, --mixed unstages changes and --hard unstages changes and removes them from the working directory.

Neeha Curtis

Updated on March 24, 2025

Digital transformation strategy stuck in the mud? It could be a sign that your engineering teams are juggling too many different priorities. Here’s what to do. 

Tara Boyle

Updated on March 24, 2025

Glob is a Python module that’s used to search for file path names that match a specific pattern. Here’s how to use it.