- The Gaping Hole
- Chapter 1:Introduction
- Chapter 2:Change
- Chapter 3:What’s Missing
- Chapter 4:The Root of Decay
- Chapter 5:Why Designs Rot
- Chapter 6:Decline
- Chapter 7:Powerful Tools Can Become Crutches
- Chapter 8:A New Ontology
- Chapter 9:Related Works
- Chapter 10:Principle: Design-First
- Chapter 11:Principle: Design Targets as Guideposts
- Chapter 12:Principle: Transformation of Code
- Chapter 13:Principle: Abort & Retry
The Other Half of Coding
What they Didn't Teach You
Ever wonder why things get harder over time? You were only taught half of coding. Learn the other half and reverse code rot.
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Ever wonder why things get harder over time? You were only taught half of coding. Learn the other half and reverse code rot.
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It doesn't have to be this hard.
Ever wonder why software systems seem to decay over time? Even when teams follow the best practices — TDD, Design Patterns, DDD, Behavior-Driven Development, and so on — it seems like the system always gets harder to work with.
It's not that the best practices don't work. It's just that they only address half the problem. All of these disciplines make the promise "If you do this today, things will be easier tomorrow"... but none of them actually give much advice about what to do when tomorrow comes (as it does every morning).
That's the other half of coding: not what you code, but how you code it.
The Other Half of Coding will show you what’s been missing all along — why software decays, how to stop it, and how to complete your skill set so you can write code that stands the test of time.
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Max Guernsey, III
Max Guernsey, III is a software architect, educator, and co-founder of Producore, a consultancy dedicated to fixing delivery failures through structural and technical rigor. With over two decades of experience in object‑oriented design, refactoring, test‑driven development, and design patterns, he has both delivered mission‑critical systems and coached engineering teams at scale. His work blends deep technical practices with behavioral and process transformation to help organizations achieve sustainable delivery excellence.
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