Software Development 101: Just Because it’s Done Doesn’t Mean it’s Done

Ship it!

It was done! Finally, after days of poring over the code and refining the logic, I was happy to say I’d finally finished the task. The output: a beautiful 100+ line if/else statement! Seriously.

I was about 2 months into my first job as a software developer and recently tasked with porting one of our applications from a legacy code base to…