Derek Graham

@deejaygraham
North East, UK
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Architect working mostly in the Azure cloud. Advocate for TDD, Ensemble programming, XP. Co-organizer of local tech user group NEBytes. Infrequent Sketchnoter. BBC micro:bit hacker and STEM ambassador. Rarely blogging at http://deejaygraham.github.io

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Feb 2024 - Present

Solutions Architect, Sage

May 2008 - Jan 2024

Principal Developer, Sage Software

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Writing Compilers and Interpreters

Worked with the Pester team to make NUnit reporting more representative of the test run. Removed tests that were explicitly excluded from the NUnit result report (xml). Previously, these were inclu...

Updated .LINK sections in all the Pester source docs to make internal documentation urls correct. https://github.com/pester/Pester/pull/1432

Added some documentation to the Pester testing framework for PowerShell for TestRegistry. Github issue: https://github.com/pester/Pester/issues/1236

Meetup Event Hosting

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Hosted a meetup for NE Bytes with two speakers: Peter Bull talking about Uno Platform for cross platform c# applications; and Dylan Hayes discussing the importance of sales in development and life ...

Hosted an NE Bytes meetup with Peter Gallagher from Octopus Deploy, demonstrating using the Rapsberry PI and .Net C# 6 to move a robot arm, control it with Blazor and an Oculus headset. https://ti....

Hosted "Never Lose Data Again - Event Sourcing to the Rescue!" with Oskar Dudycz dialling in from Poland to talk about event sourcing and demonstrating it's uses with c# record types (and some of t...

Hosted Andrea Magnorsky with "The best life hack, but for your software" at NE Bytes. Andrea talked about some of the thought technologies, models and diagrams we can use to better understand our s...

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Spoke at Tech on the Tyne

Spoke at NE Bytes developer meetup on "Test Driving PowerShell", why you should be testing your PowerShell scripts and cmdlets and how to do it effectively using Pester.

Gave a talk "no SOLID evidence" to the We R Tech meet-up group, about the problems with SOLID principles as a concept, why no one can remember them beyond the "S", how we can use the ideas of coher...