Re: [OT] Internal Developer Training

2016-02-15 Thread Dave Walker
Hi all, thanks for the suggestions I've begun to implement most of them and have a timeline to evaluate and bring in the rest. I was wondering if I could lean on you guys again and get any video suggestions that have really stood out particularly in the web development/.net space. We've got a

RE: SPAM-LOW: RE: [OT] Internal Developer Training

2016-02-09 Thread Paul Glavich
. - Glav From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of Andrew Coates (DX AUSTRALIA) Sent: Tuesday, 9 February 2016 4:21 PM To: ozDotNet <ozdotnet@ozdotnet.com> Subject: SPAM-LOW: RE: [OT] Internal Developer Training 7’s probably at the bott

RE: [OT] Internal Developer Training

2016-02-08 Thread Stephen Price
I highly recommend doing code reviews. Not only does it improve the quality of your code base, but its a two way learning avenue. The person reviewing the author’s code gets to understand what the code is doing. The Author thinks through their own reasoning while trying to accurately explain

Re: [OT] Internal Developer Training

2016-02-08 Thread DotNet Dude
+1 for code reviews. Plus technical brown bag sessions once a week or fortnight On Tue, Feb 9, 2016 at 2:09 PM, Stephen Price wrote: > I highly recommend doing code reviews. Not only does it improve the > quality of your code base, but its a two way learning avenue.

Re: [OT] Internal Developer Training

2016-02-08 Thread Arjang Assadi
Hello " I've found that especially their C# skillsets are limited " , What would facilitate that finding? I have been wondering what makes one bad at language and still get to be a programmer? for example what is point of quiz code like this : try divide by 0 catch return 1 finally return

RE: [OT] Internal Developer Training

2016-02-08 Thread Andrew Coates (DX AUSTRALIA)
Hi Dave, How big is your team? One of the things we’ve seen work well is to have a regular “internal user group” every fortnight, put 2 hours aside over lunch or towards the end of the day, bring in pizza, and have someone from your team do a general technical presentation (45-60 min). Then

RE: [OT] Internal Developer Training

2016-02-08 Thread Dave Walker
Cheers this looks awesome! Team is 7 people so not small. On 9 Feb 2016 17:22, "Andrew Coates (DX AUSTRALIA)" < andrew.coa...@microsoft.com> wrote: > Hi Dave, > > > > How big is your team? > > > > One of the things we’ve seen work well is to have a regular “internal user > group” every fortnight,

Re: Interview question pseudocode (was RE: [OT] Internal Developer Training)

2016-02-08 Thread Mark Hurd
uot;ozDotNet" <ozdotnet@ozdotnet.com> Subject: Re: [OT] Internal Developer Training Hello " I've found that especially their C# skillsets are limited " , What would facilitate that finding? I have been wondering what makes one bad at language and still get to be a programmer?

RE: [OT] Internal Developer Training

2016-02-08 Thread Andrew Coates (DX AUSTRALIA)
-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of Andrew Coates (DX AUSTRALIA) Sent: Tuesday, 9 February 2016 4:21 PM To: ozDotNet <ozdotnet@ozdotnet.com> Subject: RE: [OT] Internal Developer Training 7’s probably at the bottom end of enough for critical mass. You don’t need many people to be on leave

RE: [OT] Internal Developer Training

2016-02-08 Thread Dave Walker
alf Of *Dave Walker > *Sent:* Tuesday, 9 February 2016 4:16 PM > *To:* ozDotNet <ozdotnet@ozdotnet.com> > *Subject:* RE: [OT] Internal Developer Training > > > > Cheers this looks awesome! Team is 7 people so not small. > > On 9 Feb 2016 17:22, "Andrew Coates (DX AUS

RE: Interview question pseudocode (was RE: [OT] Internal Developer Training)

2016-02-08 Thread Bill McCarthy
: Mark Hurd<mailto:markeh...@gmail.com> Sent: Tuesday, 9 February 2016 4:37 PM To: ozDotNet<mailto:ozdotnet@ozdotnet.com> Subject: Re: Interview question pseudocode (was RE: [OT] Internal Developer Training) If the question was *What happens here?" or "Analyse this code (in va

Re: [OT] Internal Developer Training

2016-02-08 Thread Dave Walker
Hi sure thing. So team is made up of Web devs (html, CSS, and some js), automated testers etc who it was not a priority in company for them to have good coding standards. I disagree on this front and so want to improve their skillsets to be able to accomplish a wider variety of tasks. They are on

RE: [OT] Internal Developer Training

2016-02-08 Thread Andrew Coates (DX AUSTRALIA)
-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of Dave Walker Sent: Tuesday, 9 February 2016 4:16 PM To: ozDotNet <ozdotnet@ozdotnet.com> Subject: RE: [OT] Internal Developer Training Cheers this looks awesome! Team is 7 people so not small. On 9 Feb 2016 17:22, "Andrew Coates (DX AUSTRALIA)&qu