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Joshua Robinson

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Joshua Robinson is a Software Development Consultant for Keyhole Software. He has been working in the development field for 10+ years but has been playing with computers almost his entire life. Joshua enjoys the multifaceted challenges of a software development project and likes to be involved in all parts of the process from writing code to working with customers.

Coding For Fun: MIT Battlecode Challenge 2017

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I recently participated in the month-long MIT Battlecode competition where I programmed a team of virtual robots that competed against another team in a real-time strategy game. In this blog, I discuss some of the lessons learned during the programming competition. I was surprised how much of it could be used as a lesson in the real-world of programming!

We’re in this industry because we love programming and writing code. It is in this spirit that I suggest to all readers to consider challenging yourself and doing something similar to “code for fun” and improve your skills!

Agile Team Member Anti-Patterns

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Attention: This article was published over 11 years ago, and the information provided may be aged or outdated. While some topics are evergreen, technology moves fast, so please keep that in mind as you read the post.In this blog post, I examine Agile team member roles and explain what I see as behaviors, or “anti-patterns,” that are detrimental to the …

Lessons Learned in Automated Testing

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Attention: This article was published over 11 years ago, and the information provided may be aged or outdated. While some topics are evergreen, technology moves fast, so please keep that in mind as you read the post.I want to discuss some takeaways from my role as a Quality Assurance (QA) Software Developer. My experiences in QA were two-fold: I started …