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ShaunFinglas

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news.ycombinator.com 9y ago

Ask HN: What makes a good recruiter email/advert?

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blog.shaunfinglas.co.uk 9y ago

Finance for Software Developers

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blog.shaunfinglas.co.uk 9y ago

POODR Highlights Part 1

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The New Guy

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blog.shaunfinglas.co.uk 9y ago

Constant Object Anti Pattern

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New and Shiny Things

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Anaemic Domain Models and Code Smells

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UI Composition Techniques for Services

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blog.shaunfinglas.co.uk 10y ago

Ten Lessons from Rewriting Software

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Given When Then Scenarios vs. Test Fixtures

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Your Job Isn't to Write Code

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Foreign Key Constraints and Microservices

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You Rarely Need Custom Exceptions

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X% of Configuration Is Never Used

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Legacy Code Is Just Code

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Dependency Injection for Common Global Dependencies

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Pulling the Plug on Date/Time Parsing

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Best of Breed

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Singleton's and the Singleton Lifestyle

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Eating your own Dog Food

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Write Assertions First

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Why you need a Developer Diary

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Gaining Ten Extra Hours a Week

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Sproc vs. ORM vs. Inline vs. Polyglot

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Getting Things Done – For Software Developers

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A Lotta Architecture – A Reply to “A Little Architecture” by UncleBob

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Validation Is Not a Cross Cutting Concern

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Application Validation and Domain Validation

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Reducing Conditional Logic to a Single Location

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Throw Code Away

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Didn't know what a TIL was until just now.

However I've been doing something very similar for over a year now. Its called a Developer Diary. I can't give credit for the talk that gave me this idea but it's without doubt one of the best changes I've made to further myself.

It's the same idea, except the content is not public. I've toyed with the idea but the content is very rough plus includes some very specific details. That said I host the content so it's always in my browser as plain text files, so able to search and navigate easily. I've blogged about the idea before, but however you do it, make notes. Your future self will thank you.

http://blog.shaunfinglas.co.uk/2014/09/developer-diaries.htm...