Picking the right architecture = Picking the right battles + Managing trade-offs

1. Clarify and agree on the scope of the system

• User cases (description of sequences of events that, taken together, lead to a system doing something useful)
  • Who is going to use it?
  • How are they going to use it?

Hi there! Thanks for offering me a coding assigment test. I see that this can be a useful method to compare different candidates applying for the XYZ-Role. I would like to kindly ask if you have some leeway in finding an alternative way to evaluate my coding skills? I have written a number of open-source projects/spoke at conferences/worked as a coding-teacher/did XYZ and I would love to showcase this to your engineers:

LIST STUFF YOU DID

These are just some projects I picked that demonstrate not just skill in programming but also in math, design and XYZ.

Please can I kindly ask you to check with your engineers and/or the hiring manager to perhaps have a look/conduct a code review and/or ask me to add a feature or resolve a bug?

I checked that ABC is doing a lot of XYZ and I opened a Github issue extra for ABC (LINK TO GITHUB ISSUE). I can program this feature/fix that bug within a given timeframe and then discuss the written code with one of your engineers?

Here's the curriculum for the course. It's a good idea to bring a laptop to our biweekly sessions.

1. SQL basics
2. Getting Help
3. Using documentation
4. Create a github.com account
   • Learn to use git
   • Put your files on your github page
5. Connecting to databases & using SQLite

Magic words:

psql -U postgres

Some interesting flags (to see all, use -h):

• -E: will describe the underlaying queries of the \ commands (cool for learning!)
• -l: psql will list all databases and then exit (useful if the user you connect with doesn't has a default database, like at AWS RDS)

I hereby claim:

• I am akoshodi on github.
• I am akoshodi (https://keybase.io/akoshodi) on keybase.
• I have a public key ASB_2MAINxUek74mHz90BCn3usRiXC3-8qwx9UPOsOdVFwo

To claim this, I am signing this object:

Related Setup: https://gist.github.com/hofmannsven/6814278

Related Pro Tips: https://ochronus.com/git-tips-from-the-trenches/

• http://cli.learncodethehardway.org/book/
• https://www.codecademy.com/courses/learn-the-command-line

• Linux auf einem Blatt

• Website: http://laravel.com/
• October CMS gist: https://gist.github.com/hofmannsven/e71b90092fde4dc5cff9

• Laravel cheatsheet: http://cheats.jesse-obrien.ca/

• JetBrains: https://www.jetbrains.com/
• PhpStorm: https://www.jetbrains.com/phpstorm/

• https://youtu.be/J9emzl_VmIs
• https://laracasts.com/series/how-to-be-awesome-in-phpstorm