Brilliant article about systems thinking

Posted on May 21, 2019 by dommillar

Outstanding thoughts by Hanselman giving advice to a young developer. Really great article that I think a lot of developers (should read) …

“… to try not to focus on the syntax of C# and the details of the .NET Framework, and rather to think about the problems that it solves and the system around it.

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Do you understand how your system talks to the file system? To the network? Do you understand latency and how it can affect your system? Do you have a general understanding of “the stack” from when your backend gets data from the database makes anglebrackets or curly braces, sends them over the network to a client/browser, and what that next system does with the info?”

https://www.hanselman.com/blog/SystemsThinkingAsImportantAsEverForNewCoders.aspx

Awesome TED talk on happiness

Posted on February 3, 2018 by dommillar

I’d classify/tag this as off-topic but the reality over the quarter of a century in my professional life in IT, I’ve worked out one thing – you are working/coding better when you are happy. This is about the best video I’ve come across on the subject. I actually found it on c-sharpcorner.com for the record.

Junior Developer Meetup Canberra 14 September

Posted on August 30, 2017 by dommillar

Meetup #3 – CODE and TELL

Thursday, Sep 14, 2017, 5:30 PM

Xero Canberra
Level 2, 10 Rudd Street Canberra, AU

12 Members Attending

We’ll have another exciting meetup – this time feel free to come along with something you’d like to show or talk about (maybe its something you are working on at the moment, can you just contact [masked] or [masked] so that we get an idea of how many people will be doing a code and tell)

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