On the DotDev site there's an article from Sharon Steed with a reminder to the developers out there - it's not all about the code (despite what it may seem like in the job description).

Soft skills get a bad rap; especially in tech. Code has always been king, but software constantly changes. The need to be good communicators and generally pleasant coworkers will always be there. That’s why it’s important to dedicate parts of your day to improving those skills that don’t involve code. No matter how great of a dev you are, you aren’t going to to be nearly as successful if you are difficult to be around. Here are a few soft skills crucial to working in tech.

She covers four major topics around these "soft skills", what they are and what you can do to help improve them:

• Being Accessible
• Solving People Problems
• Keeping Your Ego in Check
• Considering the Big Picture

She ends the post by reminding developers that code is only "one part of the machine" and that by developing soft skills you can much more easily further your career as a developer, regardless of how amazing or clean or manageable your code may be.

If you're still new to the world of testing in your applications, you should give this new guide from Gundars Meness a read. He's done a great job of providing "the big picture" of testing - why to do it and what it is.

This is not a crash course of what characters one needs to type in his code editor to produce unit tests. This is fuel the brain requires before attempting such actions.

The subject of Unit Testing is not as simple as one might think. Many of us, developers, go into unit testing based on pressure from clients, peers, colleagues, our heroes and so on. We quickly learn the value of it, and, once the tech setup is done, there is a tendency to forget the big picture, if it was ever learnt. This article will provide a short insight into what is and isn’t unit testing in PHP and in general, and unit test place in the quality assurance realm.

He then breaks up the article into a few different sections, each with a paragraph or two, covering different testing related topics:

• What is testing?
• What really is testing?
• What is Unit Testing?
• How to write a Unit test?

There's some great suggestions in here, for both those new to testing and those still trying to figure out some good practices.