Christian Vasquez

Lover of good coding practices, martial arts, videogames and chihuahuas.

Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic Joined on Feb 22, 2017 christianvasquezmelo@gmail.com

Education

Software Engineering

Work

QA Engineer at mGage

Christian Vasquez

May 19 '20

Be your own light in the darkness

#productivity

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Introduction to Unit Testing with Java

Hey Mohammad, Thank you very much! I'm not entirely sure ...

Jul 11 '19

E2E testing with Selenium and Kotlin

Hey Erdelyi, I'm glad you enjoyed it 😁. Here's the link t...

Jul 11 '19

I switched careers to Software Engineering in my late 30s while nursing a newborn, Ask Me Anything!

How did you balance out being with your child and learning?

Apr 12 '19

New Experimental Feature: "Target Experience Level" for Posts

This is awesome!

Feb 28 '19

Letter to Myself Ten Years Ago

My mind is telling me no... but my body.... MY BOOOODY IS T...

Feb 15 '19

Letter to Myself Ten Years Ago

"Because there was nothing to be proud of. Just an overwei...

Feb 15 '19

🎁💝DevTo CLI💝🎁: A Valentine's Day Gift To My Favorite People

hahaha, awesome stuff Sarthak! I'm loving it.

Feb 14 '19

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Christian Vasquez

Jul 12 '19

What pulled you away from coding for a while?

#discuss

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Christian Vasquez

Dec 12 '18

How do you get back into a side project after months?

#discuss #motivation #sideprojects

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Christian Vasquez

Nov 15 '18

Is College Worth It?

#discuss

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Christian Vasquez

Nov 5 '18

Should I pass a View to a Presenter's constructor?

#discuss #android #kotlin #mvp

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Christian Vasquez

Oct 13 '18

What have you learned from less experienced developers? 🤔

#discuss

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Christian Vasquez

Oct 13 '18

What makes a remote job "junior friendly"? 🤔

#discuss #remote #culture

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Christian Vasquez

Oct 13 '18

My .NET Core Setup for MacOS/Linux

#dotnet #core #docker #sqlserver

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Christian Vasquez

Oct 12 '18

My Top 3 Favorite Posts of All Time

#top #favorite #bestofdev

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Oct 12 '18

Stop Waiting for It

#motivation

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Christian Vasquez

Oct 12 '18

Explain Empty Returns Like I'm Five

#explainlikeimfive #beginners

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Christian Vasquez

Oct 9 '18

Do you consider reading books a must?

#discuss #career

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Oct 3 '18

What made you ✍🏻 your first post here? 🤔

#discuss #writing #motivation

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Christian Vasquez

Sep 28 '18

How to change the author of all your commits

#git #tips #howto

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Christian Vasquez

Sep 27 '18

Do you have any laptop desk stand suggestions?

#help #suggestion #workplace #health

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Christian Vasquez

Sep 13 '18

What is your opinion about Visual Studio for Mac? 🤔

#discuss #macos #microsoft #ide

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Christian Vasquez

Aug 8 '18

Do you schedule time and tasks for refactors?

#discuss #refactor #cleancode

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Christian Vasquez

Jul 18 '18

What's your worst estimate story?

#discuss #story #estimate #carreer

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Christian Vasquez

Jul 12 '18

Look ma', without loops!

#beginners #functional #kotlin

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Christian Vasquez

Jul 11 '18

If you could not code anymore, what would you do?

#discuss

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Jul 3 '18

What is your most recent "Aha!" moment?

#discuss

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Christian Vasquez

Jun 28 '18

What's your ideal way of learning? 🤔

#discuss

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Christian Vasquez

Jun 28 '18

Make while learning or learning before you make?

#discuss

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Christian Vasquez

Jun 10 '18

My IntelliJ IDEA setup

#setup #intellij #ide

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Christian Vasquez

Jun 2 '18

Which book(s) make you talk out loud?

#discuss #reading #books

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Christian Vasquez

May 22 '18

What was your first ever contribution to Open Source?

#discuss #opensource #contributing

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Christian Vasquez

Apr 22 '18

Introduction to Unit Testing with Java

#testing #unittesting #java #beginners

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Christian Vasquez

Apr 20 '18

Explain Java 8's Optional Like I'm Five

#explainlikeimfive #java #optional

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Christian Vasquez

Mar 5 '18

How I finally understood what a class is

#beginners #oop #class #howifinally

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Christian Vasquez

Feb 28 '18

Is Coding an Art?

#discuss #cleancode #art

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Christian Vasquez

Feb 23 '18

Tales Of The First Talk

#conference #talks #teaching

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Christian Vasquez

Feb 14 '18

If you could make one of your tools your valentine, which one would it be? 🤔

#discuss #valentinesday

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Christian Vasquez

Feb 9 '18

What do you wish you knew before doing talks?

#discuss #talks #conferences

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Christian Vasquez

Feb 2 '18

As a Senior, do you look forward to mentor Junior developers?

#discuss #mentorship

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Christian Vasquez

Feb 2 '18

What are your favorite IntelliJ shortcuts?

#discuss #intellij #shortcuts #productivity

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Christian Vasquez

Jan 16 '18

E2E Testing with TestCafe | Part 4

#testing #e2e #testcafe #javascript

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Christian Vasquez

Jan 15 '18

E2E Testing with TestCafe | Part 3

#testcafe #e2e #testing #javascript

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Christian Vasquez

Jan 15 '18

E2E Testing with TestCafe | Part 2

#testing #e2e #testcafe #javascript

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Christian Vasquez

Jan 14 '18

How writing can also be a teacher

#write #learn

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Christian Vasquez

Jan 12 '18

Getting to know ListView in Android

#android #listview #kotlin

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Christian Vasquez

Jan 9 '18

Explain Pure Functions Like I'm Five

#explainlikeimfive

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Christian Vasquez

Jan 8 '18

Were you born to be a developer?

#discuss

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Christian Vasquez

Jan 8 '18

Watch your Coding Manners

#cleancode

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Christian Vasquez

Jan 6 '18

Loops A La Kotlin for Java Developers

#loops #kotlin

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Christian Vasquez

Jan 5 '18

Coding Livestreams

#discuss

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Christian Vasquez

Jan 5 '18

Avoiding the Builder Design Pattern in Kotlin

#kotlin #designpatterns #antipatterns #builder

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Christian Vasquez

Jan 4 '18

It's Just Syntactic Sugar

#discuss #language #syntacticsugar

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Christian Vasquez

Jan 2 '18

E2E testing with Selenium and Kotlin

#testing #e2e #selenium #kotlin

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Christian Vasquez

Dec 30 '17

E2E testing with TestCafe | Part 1

#testing #e2e #testcafe

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Christian Vasquez

Dec 25 '17

Key questions during an interview

#discuss

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Christian Vasquez

Dec 23 '17

What testing tools/frameworks does the DEV team use? 🤔

#discuss #testing #tools

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Christian Vasquez

Dec 13 '17

Should a Junior Developer start with a remote job?

#discuss #remote #junior

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Christian Vasquez

Dec 13 '17

Must have extensions for VS Code (according to me)

#vscode #editor #extensions #tools

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Christian Vasquez

Dec 10 '17

Explain non-relational databases like I'm five

#explainlikeimfive

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Christian Vasquez

Sep 14 '17

Explain dependency injection like I'm five

#explainlikeimfive #discuss

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