These days I find myself interviewing quite a few candidates. Some are good, some aren t. So it goes. However, there is another group who I feel could be good but just aren t showing it in the interview. I think I was probably in this group earlier in my career. So, in a bid to help [ ]
When I started out a programmer I had assumed that the job would entail lots of clever algorithms and complex data structures together with the kinds of design principals outlined by the likes of Uncle Bob and Martin Flower. It pretty quickly became clear that this would not be the case. The fundamental goal is [ ]
I think all developers have had the experience of being told about the X developers earning Y a day and thinking to themselves that s the gig I should be in. The X and Y vary of course. The most recent one I came across was X = Kotlin and Y = £1200 but I ve heard [ ]
How the Rich get Richer I m currently in the process of trying to buy a house in London as a first time buyer and it is not a fun activity. One of the key anxieties is that what you may be able to afford today you may not be able to afford in a few [ ]
Robotframework: Python vs Java All the tests I ve described can be run using the scripts from here https://github.com/devwithahammer/robotframework-comparison The company I work for uses Robot framework to run its acceptance tests and I think it s fair to say that it can be a little slow, especially when generating logs files. Fair enough, it s an open [ ]
All the code I ve described has been put in a library called Cut that you can find at https://github.com/devwithahammer/cut As somebody who likes to follow an approximation of TDD, writing unit tests is always my default starting point when dealing with legacy code. Amongst the many problems posed by this, often the trickiest one is [ ]