I have published a video series on building web applications in Go called Go for Web Development. These videos will guide you through the entire process of creating a web application in Go, all the way from spinning up a basic web server to multi-user authentication. In the end, you’ll learn how to vendor dependencies […]
Why Professional Development? Professional Development (PD) is vital to SEP’s business and culture. PD keeps us current and able to win new projects PD improves our ability to deliver software to clients PD helps us to continuous grow and improve our own abilities PD allows us to explore new ideas, tools, and techniques It is […]
Ollert, the Trello data analytics tool, has been open sourced under GNU Affero GPL v3.0. The source code can be found on Github and I’ve already accepted several pull requests. Why? I’ve been working towards this for a few months now. Although Ollert was a lot of fun to create and has helped quite a […]
Many moons ago, I wrote about setting up a Go environment in Ubuntu. After writing that post, I dropped Go development for nearly a year. Today I run the Indy Golang meetup, and soon I’ll be starting a new work project where I’ll be recommending a Go-based tech stack. I’ve learned a thing or two […]
Ollert – Reveal the Data Behind Your Trello Boards
Introducing Ollert, a tool to show you what your Trello boards can’t tell you on their own. Trello does a great job of telling you about the here and now of your Trello boards; who’s working on what task and what is the current state of a task. But what if I want to know about the state […]
[Jasmine](https://jasmine.github.io/): a headless Javascript testing library written entirely in Javascript. With similarities to [rspec](http://rspec.info), I’ve quickly grown attached to this framework and have been looking for opportunities to discuss it. [Version 2.0](https://jasmine.github.io/2.0/introduction.html) was recently released, so I’ll be focusing on the standalone 2.0 concepts. To get started, download and uncompress [the standalone distribution](https://github.com/pivotal/jasmine/tree/master/dist). The uncompressed […]
During SEP’s previous startup weekend, I pitched an idea for a Trello Analysis Tool called Ollert. In less than three days, a team of 6 built a minimal viable product (MVP) and put it live on the internet. In a little over three months, I have slowly guided Ollert through the legal department, obtained a real domain with security, and fixed […]
As a quick reminder, golang is a really fun programming language to use. It even includes testing out of the box! Unfortunately, this out-of-the-box testing framework isn’t all that great. It lacks the syntactic sugar of mature frameworks like rspec or gtest. Of course, there are alternatives. I found an open-source library (licensed with Simplified […]
[The AgileIndy Conference 2014](http://agileindy.org/conference/) has come and gone. I wasn’t sure what to expect, since it was my first conference, but I came out of it feeling rather positive. A short list of my favorite things from this year’s AgileIndy: Interesting speakers Good food Uncomfortable chairs #agileindy14 Free booze Lots of coffee Champion dogs Good […]
