SEP History Lesson: When an Enthusiastic Newbie Convinced Us to Get a Fish Tank
I’ve had several people tell me they liked the new fishtank design (thank you!), and it was suggested that I do a write-up about the tank. I’m always happy to talk about it! I’ll start with some history… How it Began It all started around 10 years ago. I was interviewing for a position at SEP, […]
Getting even more value from your daily standup…
Many teams around here are familiar with the “famous 3” standup questions… What did you do yesterday? What will you do today? What impediments do you have? This is a good way to get the team in the habit of communicating each day. A few of my teams have gotten even more value out of our […]
A brief take on security in Ubuntu
In Ubuntu, the first wall of security comes in the form of a special user account called root. Root has the ability to perform any operation on the system. To protect users or crackers from using root to harm the system, no user can actually login as root. Instead, users perform actions with root privileges […]
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 […]
Helpful Mobile Development Libraries: Alamofire and SwiftyJSON
Since my first post about ZipGet, other Swift programmers have published some nifty libraries, namely Alamofire and SwiftyJSON. Alamofire comes from the makers of AFNetworking, a ubiquitous and handy networking library for iOS. Unlike AFNetworking, though, Alamofire is written completely in Swift. SwiftyJSON does not boast as illustrious a pedigree as Alamofire, but it greatly […]
If you build it, they will find zip codes
I’ve written an app in Swift. Put simply, the app helps you find zip codes. Enter a city or landmark, pan and zoom your way across the globe, or center on your current location to see a zip code. If a friend has ever given you his credit card to use at a gas station, […]
Extracting Form Models in Android
In my continuing quest to get code out of Android Activities, I’ve implemented the traditional “Form Model” pattern in a recent project with great success and wanted to share my thoughts. The basic idea is to extract the code for handling the UI interactions, as well as the data binding and any state keeping, into […]
Checking into Swift
In the interest of learning Swift, I undertook one of the exercises catalogued on codekata.com—“Data Munging,” involving some simple file parsing. The first thing I learned? Regular expressions in Swift, which are really just Objective-C regular expressions at this stage, are remarkably unintuitive. I come from JavaScript, where regex literals and uncomplicated functionality make using […]
Ditch the IDE, become a blade master with Vim.
I am a huge fan of text editors. While I have taken a few GUI editors for a spin, I always come back to Terminal Vim. In this post, I’m going to develop an argument as to why you should stop using IDEs and pick up an editor using Vim as my end example. If […]
