Thoughts for Thursday: Go for a walk!
Published: 11/19/2015
Clinical studies have shown that walking can have numerous benefits to your health, depression and well being. It can boost your weight loss, ease depression and enhance your life.
Thoughts for Thursday: Use Noise canceling headphones
Published: 11/12/2015
I recently bought a pair of the Audio-Technica ATH-ANC7B from Amazon. They’re close to $100 but they’re less then the price of similar Bose headphones.
Scrum is the new waterfall
Published: 11/10/2015
Scrum while great in theory is in practice a really flawed process of creating software. Scrum is iterative waterfall. Scrum is process hell. Saying this, may get me shunned and kicked out of the Agile club. But I really believe that the bane of our industry is the process management called “Scrum”.
Thoughts for Thursday: Have some sample code
Published: 11/05/2015
Code is like a living resume. You are constantly changing and learning, or at least I hope you are. If you’re a developer, you may never know when you might be out of a job, so just like it’s a great idea to keep your resume up to date, I highly recommend keeping some sample code around.
Meetings are a finite resource
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.
Ashley Madison: The use case for general encryption
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.
Encrypting files using PGP
Published: 10/06/2015
PGP is a encryption tool I use to encrypt and decrypt files containing sensitive data.
Thoughts for Thursday: Why I wouldn’t use Rails for a new company
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.
Write better specs!
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.
Thoughts for Thursday: Lazy rebasing
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.