mattcole's comments

Youi Insurance, Sunshine Coast, Australia.

Want to work for a dynamic, fast growing insurance company which writes all its own software? Like the idea of living on the Sunshine Coast (average winter temperature 21 degrees), and working in an office a minute from the beach? Do you want to write software using C#, F#, AngularJS, Xamarin and Raven DB?

Youi is looking for experienced .Net developers preferably with strong web skills or Xamarin focused mobile skills. If you’re interested in working somewhere with an awesome technology vision, an emphasis on work/life balance and a fun work environment as part of a fast growing, profitable business get in touch with [email protected].

If you're willing to live in sunny SE QLD, Australia, and good at C# as well as JS, get in touch.

I actually thought maybe this was a joke. This seems like a pretty brittle and hard to maintain way to go about this.

Surely a better solution is something more declarative which is then wrapped up in a library of some sort that does the heavy lifting.

An example of declarative validation is in ASP.Net MVC 3 and above where you can define validation on the server side models, enable unobstrusive javascript and you get both server and client side validation where the client side work is done by jquery and the server side by the model binding infrastructure that turns http request data into controller inputs.

Would you be able to elaborate on how it slows initial development way down (and is a pain to debug!)?

I've only played with it a little but the deployment story seemed quite nice.

So, in summary, yes, yes it does :)

How is this vastly different to Azure Tables?

We kind of took the other route, our daughter slept whenever there was time really. We took her backpacking across Europe for 2 months when she was 8 months old, she just slept whenever she was tired. At home she would go to bed if we were at home, but we didn't hesitate to go out for dinner or to a friends house or whatever and she'd just sleep whereever we ended up. In contrast some of our friends have kids who will only sleep if they're in their usual environment which can make things a bit tricky. We're expecting number 2 in 10 weeks, so hopefully the next one is equally easy going.

It's really no big deal, but in Australia as kids we're taught we live on a continent that is an island and a country :)

How is Australia not an island? It's way bigger than Greenland.

I'd probably come too if the date worked

Tough crowd :O I thought it was a really interesting insight into the 'softer' side of starting up, the stress and personal investment of a founder in his company. I know how stressful live demos are even to a fairly sympathetic audience who are going to give you another chance if things go horribly wrong; I could really identify with his description of it knowing how much was riding on it going well.

Good luck to him.