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I've made a library of Dharma quotes!

Evie — Fri, 20 Mar 2020 15:43:17 +0000

Hi everyone, you all ok?

I've made my first Ruby gem 💎 . The language I usually code in is C# and I don't usually get chance to practise my Ruby, so this was a fun lil excursion!

As you can imagine, I'm mega rusty with Ruby at the moment so I welcome any feedback you might have on the gem. You can view the source code here.

Have fun and enjoy life!

Evie's Musical Nuggets Vol 3 - Dub Special

Evie — Tue, 17 Mar 2020 17:41:25 +0000

Well well all you devs! It's time for another edition of Evie's Musical Nuggets 💯

This time we're going to explore the land of the deep and heavy dub. Enjoy!

When you feel like you can't do it...

Evie — Wed, 04 Mar 2020 15:48:16 +0000

✨Hey ladies and non-binary friends!✨

What do you do when today is just one of those days? If you're the only software engineer around who's not a cis man, you might get times where you feel like you're not as good as the lads; like you have a mountain to climb in order to prove that they hired the right person; like you can't do it.

I have a huge learning curve ahead of me so I sometimes find myself feeling like that. Today that's not been helped by one of my colleagues standing up and declaring, for the second time, that a mate of his in Brecon shat in a bag the other day and had to take it home with him. This hilarious story was so impressive that he had to tell it twice. Watch out Jimmy Carr, someone's coming for your comedy crown! 👑

Sometimes I can't help but wonder 'How is is possible that this berk gets paid more than me?'. No amount of eye rolling can help you when it's just one of those days. Luckily for you, I have some practical nuggets that I find help assuage the negativity!

Go for a wander (outside is best, but simply walking and stretching in the office does me a world of good too)
Book a meeting room and meditate/do yoga/do pushups
Make a soothing cuppa
Ring a loved one
Write down on a piece of paper what's worrying you and logically evaluate whether there is sufficient evidence to merit worrying about it. Usually there is not! 😄

So be kind to yourself. YOU CAN DO IT 🚀 Are there any practical nuggets you have that can help too?

Explain IoC Container like I'm Five

Evie — Sun, 16 Feb 2020 12:31:28 +0000

Hi everyone! I'm a .Net developer and I've been trying to get my head around StructureMap and IoC containers in general recently. I understand what dependency injection is, and I know how to use interfaces to make code more testable and extensible.

What exactly is an IoC container though? I welcome answers from anyone, not just other .Net developers 😁

How do you get new starters acquainted with your codebase?

Evie — Fri, 14 Feb 2020 15:28:26 +0000

Do you often have new starters join the team?

How do you help them get a project up and running on their machine for the first time?

I've met some teams that use a fully automated process (e.g one shell script), and others that use a mixture of automated steps and manual steps.

Happy Friday!

Evie's Musical Nuggets Vol 2

Evie — Fri, 25 Oct 2019 13:28:15 +0000

Welcome back to another edition of Evie's Musical Nuggets! I have some more tantalising auditory treats for ya.

Green and Gold. Vintage soul and r'n'b, approximately 63% instrumental for coding in yer onesie on a Sunday afternoon 😄
Soul mix from DJ Vadim. Departure from his usual reggae mixes, which I also highly recommend!
Yummy Beats 143. Nuggets of nu jazz, hip-hop and glitchiness.
Collaborations across Nations. Vinyl only funky selection!
El Blues del Pescador. An enchanting mix of sounds from all over: sumptuous and mysterious listening. I often like listening to music in languages other than my native English, because I tend to focus less on the lyrics that way.

Happy coding!

How does your Team Maintain Coding Standards?

Evie — Tue, 15 Oct 2019 16:55:37 +0000

Currently at my company we have no explicit set of coding standards, and we are looking to implement and maintain some. How does this work in your team and how do you encourage engineers to adhere to the standards?

We use the Microsoft/.Net stack, but I welcome answers from engineers of all stacks.

Have a great week! 😁

Evie's Musical Nuggets

Evie — Thu, 10 Oct 2019 09:45:49 +0000

A Selection of the Music I've been Listening to while Coding this Week

Video game music (check the first track in this mix, from Ape Escape! Throwback!) https://www.mixcloud.com/hotelradioparis/raimunda-sp%C3%A9cial-jeux-vid%C3%A9o-091019/
The new album from Run Logan Run: spiritual heavy jazz from Bristol https://runloganrun.bandcamp.com/album/k-an
Mungo's Hifi mix of versions on the Tin Pan riddim https://www.mixcloud.com/scotchbonnetrecords/mungos-hi-fi-tin-pan-versions/
Other smooth and bass heavy tunes https://www.mixcloud.com/hotelradioparis/columbian-crush-270919/

What music do you like to listen to during a coding sesh? 🎧