TIL, 2017-03-28, The Long Strange Trip of a Senior Developer

• ActionView::Helpers::NumberHelper.
• Resque web weird stuff????
• VALUES RULE
• Factory Girl, when creating a value object

      FactoryGirl.define do
        trait :initializes_as_value_object do
          skip_create
          initialize_with { new(attributes) }
        end
      end

RubyConf 2016 - The long strange trip of a senior developer by Brandon Hays

• Technical capability: Curiosity, rigor/discipline, fearlessness, propensity to ship.

Curiosity

• Junior: Just enough to ship.
• Mid: Deep exploration of 1 language/toolset.
• Senior: 2+ languages/toolsets.
• Beyond: Synthesis advances state of the art.

Rigor and Discipline

• The ability which foot to put forward and a willingness to go forth that path.
• Junior: Very bad or no tests.
• Mid: Slow, fragile tests.
• Senior: Decent, fast tests.
• Beyond: “We need a new approach to testing.”

Fearlessness

• An unwillingness to be intimidated with a problem without a clear solution.
• Junior: Isn’t there a framework for this?
• Mid: I’ll try to write a framework.
• Senior: Let’s not write a framework.
• Beyond: Let’s fix the framework we already have.
• It’s knowing that failure is an outcome, and knowing what to do anyway.

Propensity to Ship

• Junior: Nothing to show just yet.
• Mid: A graveyard of abandoned projects.
• Senior: Maintains a few long-running projects.
• Beyond: Has projects with industry-wide usage.

Owner’s Mindset

• TOO MANY! Hehe