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23 Jun 2015   Updated: 23 Jun 2015   Rating: 0.00/5    Votes: 0   Popularity: 0.00
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Give your tests mutant powers with PIT [Part 2]
10 Sep 2015   Updated: 10 Sep 2015   Rating: 4.21/5    Votes: 6   Popularity: 3.28
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So you passed the interview, negotiated a salary you are happy with, and are leaving your current position for greener pastures.  It is time to coast for the next six months or so when people stop thinking of you as the newbie.
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28 Aug 2015   Updated: 28 Aug 2015   Rating: 4.43/5    Votes: 7   Popularity: 3.74
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Big O Notation is a way of expressing the worst case complexity or order of growth of an algorithm. It is not as scary and something to only break out during interviews.
30 Jun 2015   Updated: 30 Jun 2015   Rating: 5.00/5    Votes: 1   Popularity: 0.00
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Almost anything can become code. Here is an example of turning a puzzle we have all likely heard into a coding exercise. Always be coding.
30 Jun 2015   Updated: 30 Jun 2015   Rating: 4.31/5    Votes: 8   Popularity: 3.89
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Soft skills are very important to software engineers
23 Jun 2015   Updated: 23 Jun 2015   Rating: 5.00/5    Votes: 3   Popularity: 2.39
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Can your tests survive the coming mutant Apocalypse?
DevOps
Testing
4 Sep 2015   Updated: 4 Sep 2015   Rating: 0.00/5    Votes: 0   Popularity: 0.00
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This post is in regards to the value add that comes from doing mutation testing.
2 Sep 2015   Updated: 2 Sep 2015   Rating: 4.71/5    Votes: 13   Popularity: 4.91
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Listed here are 13 steps to make TDD actually work
Programming Languages
C++
1 Jul 2015   Updated: 1 Jul 2015   Rating: 0.00/5    Votes: 0   Popularity: 0.00
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Node.js for home grown utility applications
Java
30 Jun 2015   Updated: 30 Jun 2015   Rating: 0.00/5    Votes: 0   Popularity: 0.00
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An coding exercise using Java 8 trying to do the same summation loop multiple ways
30 Jun 2015   Updated: 30 Jun 2015   Rating: 0.00/5    Votes: 0   Popularity: 0.00
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Java 8 streams and the drastic impact with loops
25 Jun 2015   Updated: 25 Jun 2015   Rating: 3.80/5    Votes: 12   Popularity: 4.10
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Find middle of a Linked List in one pass/loop (Pseudo code/Java/JavaScript)
25 Jun 2015   Updated: 25 Jun 2015   Rating: 5.00/5    Votes: 1   Popularity: 0.00
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Mutation Testing is amazing. Start doing it with PIT to test your tests. The cost of poor quality is too great to ignore.
Javascript
11 Sep 2015   Updated: 11 Sep 2015   Rating: 3.46/5    Votes: 4   Popularity: 2.08
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If I only knew JavaScript...
Web Development
30 Jun 2015   Updated: 30 Jun 2015   Rating: 0.00/5    Votes: 0   Popularity: 0.00
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Full stack Java engineer looking to enhance the quality of the code around me. Find out more about me at http://www.bobbylough.com