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Recent content by firestarter
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Contracting straight out of uni. Is it doable? v2
Great, then we're both happy. We don't want some arrogant know-it-all who thinks he's above doing a simple technical test to prove he can do the thing he's being contracted to do.- firestarter
- Post #75
- Forum: Business / Contracts
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Contracting straight out of uni. Is it doable? v2
Join me for a tour of the IT department of any bank in the city and we'll play a game of "observe the working practises of each developer and try to tell apart the permies from the contractors." I know a lot of you like to think you're special and a cut above the permies, but in reality you're...- firestarter
- Post #69
- Forum: Business / Contracts
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Contracting straight out of uni. Is it doable? v2
The number of candidates that fail this part...- firestarter
- Post #68
- Forum: Business / Contracts
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Contracting straight out of uni. Is it doable? v2
There's a lot of contractors with long stints who I'm sure could explain their previous roles and what they delivered fairly confidently, but that doesn't tell us whether their code quality is any good. Case in point, they might talk about unit tests, but can they write any when asked to do so...- firestarter
- Post #63
- Forum: Business / Contracts
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Contracting straight out of uni. Is it doable? v2
When done properly, tech tests are a great way of filtering out poor candidates. The numbers of candidates we've seen who have years of experience and yet can't follow a simple spec that requires ~15 lines of straight forward code and a couple of unit tests.- firestarter
- Post #61
- Forum: Business / Contracts
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Overarchitected Projects
Which is fine for testing a few input/output cases but you'll never achieve the same level of granularity that unit testing allows for, nor will you be able to verify how exactly your classes are interacting together. Simple example - We take our Calculator class and add component B to provide...- firestarter
- Post #56
- Forum: Technical
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Overarchitected Projects
Sounds like the problem here with the team (as with a lot of the industry) is a complete lack of common sense. An over-engineered system such as the one you describe will only be made worse by the addition of DI. A properly designed one will only benefit.- firestarter
- Post #53
- Forum: Technical
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Overarchitected Projects
TDD and Unit Testing are not the same thing, and doing one doesn't mean you can't do the other. Agreed that in some cases, where there is a natural coupling between classes, that it makes sense to test the classes together (the classic example would be the CalculatorInputParser and...- firestarter
- Post #51
- Forum: Technical
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Overarchitected Projects
Read through some of the blog posts. Sounds like the general idea is to have a BaseCommand which is actually just a big ballbag of mutable dependencies, which are all (hopefully) set prior to execution, with each command implementation able to access any of them. A complete antipattern and a...- firestarter
- Post #50
- Forum: Technical
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Overarchitected Projects
Interesting idea but I see a few potential problems: -Consumers are still tightly coupled with commands the they rely on -Consumers still need to construct each command (including supplying of dependencies). If those dependencies also have dependencies then your code will get messy very...- firestarter
- Post #45
- Forum: Technical
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Overarchitected Projects
I'd be interested to know what the alternative to DI is. Would it be new'ing things up on the fly or just making everything static?- firestarter
- Post #43
- Forum: Technical
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Overarchitected Projects
So ComponentA has a bunch of logic in it, including calling ComponentB. You don't see any value in being able to test ComponentA in isolation?- firestarter
- Post #40
- Forum: Technical
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Never seen so much hate for DI frameworks. Is there a similar disdain for loose coupling and unit testing as well?- firestarter
- Post #39
- Forum: Technical
