Design Patterns

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On Learning Design Patterns

Hammy Goonan on Design Patterns | 13 Jun 2016

In my last post I lamented a missed opportunity where I feel I would have learnt a lot - particularly in terms of Design Patterns. To someone like me, a fairly experienced but self taught developer, it's easy to feel like Design Patterns are the 'Holy Grail'. Yet the first…

Knock backs and Becoming a Senior Developer

Hammy Goonan on NodeJS, Javascript, NPM, Express, Async, Pug, RequestJS, Design Patterns | 13 Jun 2016

I recently got knocked back for a job that pretty much looked like my dream job. It was a startup with a team of four - two senior devs, a junior and a lead/architect. My interview was with the lead/architect, there was a simple code test that I…