Published: 10/20/2015
My team at UHG has about 13 individual team members. We have 3 full time developers, 3 part time developers, a scrum master, business analyst, product owner, engineering director, project manager and two QA testers.
Published: 10/13/2015
Encryption really isn’t the sexiest topic, certainly not as interesting or thrilling as something like Ashley Madison, a site that promises you discrete encounters no matter your marital status.
Published: 10/06/2015
PGP is a encryption tool I use to encrypt and decrypt files containing sensitive data.
Published: 10/01/2015
Jared Friedman recently wrote a really great article on why he wouldn’t use Rails for any new company. There are a couple of factors that he looks at that makes this a really well written article.
Published: 09/29/2015
I love RSpec. It’s one of the best tools on the web for opensource developers to write tests. Nothing compares to its power, ability and extensibility. Mocha and Chai for Javascript pale in comparison to its ability to test.
Published: 09/24/2015
Rebasing is extremely useful, lets say you branched off of release 1.8.3 and need to fix a defect, but it wasn’t completed until 1.8.3 was already on production and 1.8.4 is the new hotness. git rebase release1.8.4 defectBranchName will take defectBranchName and reapply the commits over release1.8.4’s history instead of what it was originally based off of.
Published: 09/22/2015
I’ve been developing for the web for over 10 years. I started writing for the web when I was 13. At 17 I got enough freelance work to pay for my first year of college (and buying a nice Macbook). It took me 6 and a half years of going to school while working full time to graduate. In all of that time I have learned a lot about the internet and about working with people.
Published: 09/17/2015
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Published: 09/15/2015
At UHG we use Protractor to test our Backbone app for automated E2E dev only regression tests. We do this as apart of an automated CI process to ensure every branch we ingrate doesn’t break existing functionaility. Today, I’m going to walk you through our setup and how you can use Protractor (an Angular tool) to test your non-Angular app.
Published: 09/08/2015
I’ve been told I’m one of the most coachable employee’s by one my most recent managers. The reason why is because I’m open to constructive feedback about anything. Think my coding sucks because of xyz? Great, whats the impact to the business and my team? I’ll change it. Does my code suck because you didn’t write it? Get lost, pal.