Apprentice Dev Blog

Apprentice Developer Blog

Follow along with our apprentices, as they post about their journeys with us at RJJ Software.

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Apprentice Dev Blog: Weeks 7 and 8 - .NET Maui and MVVMS

As we come to the end Alex’s time with us, they took some time to clean things up and look at James Montemagno’s MVVMS …

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Apprentice Dev Blog: Week 6 - Markup & New Ways To …

Our 2022 apprentice has been deep diving into how to build UI’s using XAML this week.

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Apprentice Dev Blog: Week 5 - Looking To The Future

Our 2022 apprentice has been working on adding unit test and implementing the repository pattern this week.

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Apprentice Dev Blog: Week 4 - Repositories and Testing

Our 2022 apprentice has been working on adding unit test and implementing the repository pattern this week.

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Apprentice Dev Blog: Week 3 - Refactoring and Validation

Our 2022 apprentice has been working on refactoring and input validation this week

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Apprentice Dev Blog: Week 2 - Injecting Dependencies

Our 2022 apprentice has started learning the basics of dependency injection and not hard coding config into your applications

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Apprentice Dev Blog: Week 1 - Getting Started

Out 2022 apprentice writes about the challenges that they have overcome and the knowledge they have gained in their first week …

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