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Friday, 19 December 2014
Il tuo obiettivo per il nuovo anno? Entrare in Red Gate Software!
Guarda il video per scoprire cosa significa essere uno sviluppatore software in una delle migliori aziende software inglesi. Sono un italiano che 5 anni fa ha deciso di fare il grande passo e andare a lavorare in UK. Posso dire che e' stata una delle decisioni migliori della mia vita!
Vuoi lavorare con noi?
Per un accesso privilegiato, scrivi una mail all'indirizzo andrea.angella (at) red-gate.com
Vuoi lavorare con noi?
Per un accesso privilegiato, scrivi una mail all'indirizzo andrea.angella (at) red-gate.com
Friday, 12 December 2014
The pleasure of Down Tools Week
I have just arrived home.
It's Friday and an another Down Tools Week is ended.
I am writing this post to capture my feeling in this exact moment before my emotions disappear and I start to enter in the "Week End Mode".
I feel very tired. It was hard work but I am incredibly proud of what we achieved.
For the entire week, I didn't have meetings, I didn't check emails but I only focused on writing the minimum code that works in order to present something for the "Show & Tell" that usually happens on Friday afternoon.
The feeling during Down Tools Week is awesome.
You are completely absorbed on the tasks at hand, in the most pragmatic way you collaborate and assign tasks between the newly formed team. You can feel a constant release of adrenaline. Even after work, you can't stop thinking about what you want and should do the following day.
The most intriguing thing is that even if I worked very hard and I ate very quickly just to be able to start coding and squeeze every minute, the time passed incredibly quickly. You don't feel the time at all, actually you fight against it.
This is what I define as "Fun", what I define as "Feeling a programmer" and what I define as "Feeling alive".
Surely my passion for programming amplifies these emotions.
Psychologists call this feeling "The Flow".
The FlowA mental state of operation in which a person performing an activity is fully immersed in a feeling of energized focus, full involvement and enjoyment in the process of the activity.
I never worked with James and Peter before. Actually I never met them before in the company. In a week, I have learnt to work with them in a very effective way. I don't know if they feel the same way but I have to say that I am very impressed by what a team can do in a so short amount of time. It is fascinating to see what a bunch of people can do when time is given to them to do what they want.
The initiative is called Down Tools Week an integral and fundamental element of the culture of Red Gate where creativity is unleashed, people are empowered to learn together and create great things.
When I was young, I used to feel like this quite often. I coded games for my friends losing track of the time while I was doing it. This week remembered me those good days.
I'd like to thanks Red Gate to offer me the ability to feel in this way. I'd like to thanks James and Peter for helping me in developing further the idea of "Code Complexity as a service" (technical details will follow in a new post).
Above all, this week was seriously fun!
Monday, 27 October 2014
Webcast: Vuoi essere uno sviluppatore software in Red Gate (UK)?
Giovedi' 13 Novembre 2014
Q/A: Jodie Pinkowski Red Gate Software produce "ingeniously simple tools" per professionisti e sviluppatori Microsoft in tutto il mondo. L'azienda e' principalmente specializzata in MS SQL Server, Cloud, .NET e Oracle con l'obiettivo di diventare leader nel Database Lifecycle Management (DLM), la componente database dell' Application Lifecycle Management (ALM). Sviluppatori e DBA saranno in grado di trattare database come ogni altra parte dell'applicazione adottando processi di sviluppo moderni, come continuous integration e continuous delivery, per rilasciare spesso e in modo sicuro.
Per raggiungere questo obiettivo ambizioso, Red Gate e' anche alla ricerca di sviluppatori software italiani.
- Ti sei mai chiesto come possa essere l'esperienza di uno sviluppatore software in UK?
- Sei alla ricerca di un ambiente di lavoro piu' stimolante e gratificante che possa veramente farti crescere professionalmente?
- Sei alla ricerca di un migliore bilanciamento tra lavoro e vita privata?
- Stai considerando la possibilita' di fare una esperienza all'estero?
Andrea Angella e' un italiano che lavora in UK da 5 anni e presentera' tutti i vantaggi di lavorare in Red Gate dando risposta a molte delle domande che un italiano si pone prima di compiere il grande passo. Durante l'intero webcast, la responsabile delle risorse umane, Jodie Pinkowski, sara' a disposizione per rispondere direttamente alle vostre domande (Only In English).
Friday, 25 July 2014
Database Unit Testing and Learning TSQL
Did you know that you can write database unit tests for SQL Server?
There is a framework called tSQLt that helps you to do it.
There is also a tool from Red Gate Software called SQL Test that provide a nice UI on top of it, integrated in SQL Server Management Studio.
What about using tests for learning TSQL?
I think that it is not unreasonable to design a TSQL course where each lesson is made of a set of tests that you need to make pass. This idea of learning by making tests pass is used in the nand2tetris course that I am doing with the friends of the Cambridge Programmer's Study Group.
In this post, I try to create an example using tSQLt.
The database I use is from the Training Kit: Querying Microsoft SQL Server 2012.
Installing tSQLt
First run the following SQL statements.
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Execute the tSQLt.class.sql script provided by tSQLt.
Creating the test
First, you need to create a test class that we call Tests.
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Then, we create a test.
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The framework tSQLt allows you to create fake tables but in this case the test use the actual table HR.Employees and the actual data contained in it.
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Running the test
You can run the test individually using the tSQLt.Run or alternatively you can run all the tests in the database using tSQLt.RunAll.
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Make the test pass and learn
You can make the test pass simply adding the DISTINCT keyword in the select statement.
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There is a framework called tSQLt that helps you to do it.
There is also a tool from Red Gate Software called SQL Test that provide a nice UI on top of it, integrated in SQL Server Management Studio.
What about using tests for learning TSQL?
I think that it is not unreasonable to design a TSQL course where each lesson is made of a set of tests that you need to make pass. This idea of learning by making tests pass is used in the nand2tetris course that I am doing with the friends of the Cambridge Programmer's Study Group.
In this post, I try to create an example using tSQLt.
The database I use is from the Training Kit: Querying Microsoft SQL Server 2012.
Installing tSQLt
First run the following SQL statements.
Execute the tSQLt.class.sql script provided by tSQLt.
Creating the test
First, you need to create a test class that we call Tests.
Then, we create a test.
Running the test
You can run the test individually using the tSQLt.Run or alternatively you can run all the tests in the database using tSQLt.RunAll.
You can also create a keyboard shortcut to run all the tests easily.
You can see that the test fail!
You can make the test pass simply adding the DISTINCT keyword in the select statement.
Run the tests and they all pass.
I really like the idea of learning by making tests pass.
What do you think?
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