Tenacity of a Junior Developer – Alice Dean

Junior developers are a category of people we haven’t explored much on this podcast yet. In this episode of Smash the Bug, we’re changing that and talking with Alice Dean, a developer with Fisheye. The hunger and tenacity of junior developers is unmatched, and should not be overlooked when it comes to those we can learn from! Alice gives us some insight into what her day-to-day is like, and talks about a couple bugs she has smashed recently.

Show Notes

0:00 Intro

2:29 An average day for Alice

5:43 Making the jump from Technical Account Manager to Developer

7:10 Getting the first Magento certification

10:09 A recent invoicing bug

15:00 Recounting the troubleshooting steps that Alice took

16:09 The one line fix Alice used for this challenge

17:36 Using integration tests for troubleshooting

19:50 A custom product alert module issue with 2.4.4

23:29 When the error logs aren’t consistently providing helpful information

26:14 How to get Xdebug working on the CLI

29:37 Alice’s advice for others getting started as a developer

32:18 Outro

 

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