Every two weeks we break down solutions to code problems, talking about the decisions that got us where we are. We reveal our thinking and discuss trade-offs. Evil devs. Evil problems. Evil code.
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This short episode of the podcast serves as a farewell to the one and only Meredith Edwards. Meredith has unfortunately recently acquired some angel wings and can no longer be an evil genius alongside Emmanuel! So today we are just wrapping up what the journey thus far has taught our two hosts and bidding Meredith a very fond farewell. We briefly l…
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15. POO-ing in Durham, With Kirsten Nordine - Part 2
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Welcome back to another episode of Evil Geniuses. Today on the show we welcome back Kirsten Nordine. The last time Kirsten was on the show was a little over a month ago and we talked a little bit about an open source contribution we’re working on but we also talked a lot about her experience going to a POOD Workshop by Sandi Metz in Durham, North C…
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14. How to Describe Tests
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Welcome back to another episode of the Evil Geniuses Podcast. We are coming at you with something new this week! This episode will be the first time that we are not talking about a code problem that we’ve solved because we are going to take a stand, and our stand is about testing. We are diving into the ins and outs of how you describe your test. H…
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13. A First Example - Part 3
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On this episode of the Evil Geniuses Podcast, we continue our series on a first example of the video checkout system. To start off we recap some of the points from the first two parts and then move into the final stretch! We talk about the two main patterns that are present in this code, namely base charge for rental and extra charge for rental bef…
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12. A First Example - Part 2
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Welcome to another episode of Evil Geniuses. Last time we teased you but we’re back and this time we’re actually going to deliver the goods, no more click bait. We are working with a video checkout store type software where our classes are a movie, a rental, and a customer. We’ve given you insight into what our test look like and today we want to t…
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11. A First Example - Part 1
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On today’s show, we embark on a new, evil adventure, one on which we hope you will join us! We’ll be looking at another refactoring problem and this will make up the first part of a short series of episodes dealing with this issue. Emmanuel lays out the topic, which takes the shape of a code used to run the rental of videos in an old style video st…
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10. Tales from the Open Source Jungle and POO-ing in Durham, With Kirsten Nordine
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Today on the show, we welcome Kirsten Nordine of Stride and her faithful colleague, Scaredith, to reflect on their adventure into the open source jungle. Deciding on an open source project and what issue to tackle can be tricky, and in this episode, we find out exactly how Kirsten and Scaredith embarked on the Issue #572 quest: To “Add Ability to C…
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Today’s episode of Evil Geniuses is spent looking back on the lessons we have learned so far in this series. Through all of the evil problems and scary paths we’ve had to walk, there have been some invaluable takeaways that we have been able to share with our listeners.
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8. Video Service Refactor - Part 3
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On today’s episode of the Evil Geniuses Podcast, we are carrying on the evil journey in video service refactoring. If you have not yet checked out part one and two from this series we suggest that you listen through those to get yourself up to speed. Otherwise, the nasty, dangerous code might get completely out of hand! In this episode, we compare …
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7. Video Service Refactor - Part 2
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On today’s episode of the Evil Geniuses Podcast we are delving deeper into the video service we started last time around. Part two means twice as evil and twice as malevolent! Emmanuel and Meredith are taking you down the dark tunnel and hopefully out the other side into the daylight with this continued exploration of refactoring a video service fr…
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6. Video Service Refactor - Part 1
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On today’s Evil Geniuses Podcast we are delving deeper into the scary and unknown world of refactoring. You know we deal with evil code over here at the evil headquarters and this week is no exception. Meredith and Emmanuel are looking at a particular Youtube API problem and our hosts unpack it all for your listening pleasure.…
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5. Tic Tac Toe - Part 3
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Welcome back to the Evil Geniuses Podcast, where we’re talking evil code, evil programming and all things evil! Today we complete our series on Tic Tac Toe, so if you have not listened to the first two parts on this topic go back and get all that evil stuff out the way before continuing down this dark tunnel. Emmanuel and Meredith are finishing up …
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4. Tic Tac Toe - Part 2
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On today’s episode of the Evil Geniuses Podcast, we continue with our exposé on tic tac toe. Our hosts will go further down the dark tunnel they entered last week and hopefully see the light at the end. Meredith hands the torch over to Emmanuel at the beginning of the show to shed some light on how he approached the problems with this evil code.…
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3. Tic Tac Toe - Part 1
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Welcome back to the Evil Geniuses podcast! Today we will be looking at another set of problems with nasty and evil code. Meredith and Emmanuel will be going through an exercise in which Meredith was working with the game tic tac toe!
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In our first proper episode of the Evil Geniuses Podcast we have a look at the very evil topic of validations! Meredith and Emmanuel will be getting down and dirty with this super dark and scary topic so we hope you are ready.
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Welcome to our new podcast series brought to you by Stride Consulting in New York! We are the Evil Geniuses and in the forthcoming episodes, we will be diving into all those terrible and troublesome parts of your coding life. Pulling apart all the mistakes, nightmares and calming any worry you might have. We will be looking at areas such as refacto…
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