Mark Pearl

August, 2017

July, 2017

I've just spent a week at 8th Light

I’ve just had an opportunity to spend a week at 8th Light in Chicago, the trip was made possible by winning MYOB’s Into Tomorrow competition where they give one lucky person 5 days paid leave and $5000 to do something they wouldn’t normally get to do.

Developer Roles

What makes a senior developer vs a junior developer etc.

When to learn

** This post is inspired by PragPubs book on writing **

Team Feedback Notes

Recently we had a session with our coach on team feedback. The following “models” were used to illustrate different ways of thinking of feedback.

SVN Notes

http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/edguide/chapter03.html

Succinct Code

Often the beauty of code is in it being succinct without loosing it’s meaning.

A whole new mind by Daniel Pink

I really enjoyed “A whole new mind”. The basic premise is that in the past we have placed great value on L-Directed thinking, and that there is huge value in balancing this with R-Directed thinking.

Immigration Questions New Zealand

Please note this may not be up-to-date, but may be a handy guide if you have questions about moving from South Africa to New Zealand

Overly complex design

I’ve been looking for non-software examples of overly complex design / engineering. Today I came across a gem produced in the motor industry, the Dodge Stratus

June, 2017

PSql Notes

Returning a fixed value list

Resharper From CLI Notes

Resharper has a CLI tool for doing code inspections called Resharper Command Line Tools

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