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Coaching sessions: here’s what I talk about with junior developers

The company where I have the pleasure to work at, has been getting an influx of eager junior developers, where most of them are straight out of school. As they are navigating into the big enterprise world (or getting a taste of it), their anxiousness rises due to all sort of questions about their career and where they see themselves in the near future. I’m often asked my opinion on what they should do and if I have tips and tricks for them to grow into their career. One developer actually told me she tried to google about this topic while interviewing for jobs. I figured it would not be a shabby idea to share them with the world. Some…

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January 31, 2021 | by Dominique St-Amand | 2 Comments
AzureFunctions, Personal

Introducting Azure Functions Slack binding

I am proud to announce the first version of my Slack Azure WebJobs Extension. The binding extension eases out the integration with Slack for sending messages. It also includes an easy way to create rich messages using Slack’s Block Kit. The blocks and its related elements also have implement validation to adhere to Slack’s API validation rules. This helps to have a first level validation before sending the requests to Slack and get a response of type 400: invalid_blocks. You can find the extension here. So for the ones who care a little bit more, here’s a of bit of context as to why I spent some time creating the binding extension. I was looking for an easy way to…

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June 3, 2020 | by Dominique St-Amand | 1 Comment
Personal

A real hello world!

Hello world! I love being a developer and I’m incredibly thankful that I had the opportunity to make a passion my job. 2017 is a new year into which I want to embark on a new journey; a journey with you, yes you. You may be wondering what I mean by this. Well it’s fairly simple; I want to learn with you. I want to share with you my struggles, my ideas and my discoveries. I want to learn from yours as well! A friend of mine once told me Surround yourself with those who help you progress. A true crew doesn’t stay stagnant or drag each other down. If I eat, we all eat That’s right. We are here to better…

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December 29, 2016 | by Dominique St-Amand | Leave a comment