Be a better management with transparent performance reviews and quick feedback with on focus areas. To effectively measure software engineers, a manager needs to ask why they are measuring, agree upon on what to measure and then land on how to measure.
ACH files are used to transfer money between a “batch” of checking accounts to one checking account. Gusto did a good set of blog posts to describe ACH files from a developer’s perspective in detail if you want to understand some of the nitty gritty.
I talked with Henrique Boregio @apuraditos tonight about his game Tiny Words that he worked on with Marcos Almonacid at night while working full time as developers in Argentina. Tiny Words a fast paced word tile game that you play against another person – either random or a Facebook friend. Think Scrabble with Friends and Jumble mixed together. It is on the Google Play Store.
I wanted to watch a tech talk from Pycon 2014 that happened in April of 2014. I scanned the topics to find one that was a little more advanced than an ‘Intro to Django’ and something that could hold my attention in the middle of a Friday. I found one called Sofware Carpentry: Lessons Learned by Greg Wilson.
I switch between Chrome and Firefox routinely on my Mac whenever something irks me about one particular browser. They look so similar that the only way I can tell the difference is by looking at the status bar at the application name. Today I saw a screenshot of Opera and was blown away at how similar all three are.
I watched Bob Binder present on ‘Model Driven Development – Taking BDD/ATDD to the Next Level’ recorded at Cerner Corporation and was blown away when I saw him automate every single test case.
The Manhattan Project was a research and development project that produced the first atomic bombs during World War II. Two of the mathematicians on the project were John von Neumann and Stanislaw Ulam.
Github has released a new text editor this past month called Atom. I finally received an invite and it is time to put it to the test against Sublime and Textmate.
I had the opportunity to listen to Michael Coates who is the Chairman of the Open Web Application Security Project OWASP, these are my notes.
Subversion was the first revision control system I learned and used both professionally and personally. Using it professionally was easy, as the server was already setup. On a personal basis it was more work as you had to setup a server. That problem was solved by distributed revision control systems like git, mercurial and bazaar. I think using any revision control systems puts you in the lead anyway. But being able to setup a repo by just typing git init and not have to configure a server is cool.
One of the applications I help develop and support uses Mysql as its database. As the application starts to scale we notice the server with Mysql installed begans to have high CPU and memory utilization and sometimes feels like it is slowing down. To be able to scale the database needs to be able to handle more reads and writes. To do that I have chosen to setup MariaDB Galera, a synchronous multi-master cluster for MariaDB.
Today I am committing myself to contribute to seven different open source projects over the next seven days.
I have been working with nodejs alot lately and have been discussing with coworkers if nodejs is taking steam away from ruby at all. I think the popularity of the language is an important talking point when selecting a language and framework for a new project.
I have started switching over to Zurb for new projects.
KCRuby is running a RTanque contest right now. I heard about this when Wes Garrison gave a presentation on Ruby at Cerner’s internal tech conference and gave a plug to KCRuby.
I am addicted to reading about technology and learning what technologies others are having success at. As of this writing HackerNews is where it is at, but they are focused on the coasts. A few years ago if I wanted to read about Kansas City Startups, I would have to wade through the Kansas City Star or the Kansas City Business Journal. Today that is not so much a problem with Silicon Prairie News (SPN) [1]. What is a problem is that there are no Android or IOS applications specific to SPN.
I am glad I talked myself into setting up Jekyll. With Jekyll I am able to write a blog post with vi…