Got a call from my bank this morning. For the sake of example, I’ll say it was Wells Fargo Bank (it isn’t actually, I’ll keep the bank name private). It came from their main number that I have saved in my contacts so my custom name for that bank contact and the official phone number appeared on the caller id. […]
You can run rubocop on just a local branches’ changes like this: git fetch && git diff-tree -r –no-commit-id –name-only master@\{u\} head | xargs ls -1 2>/dev/null | xargs rubocop –force-exclusion Then you can create 2 corresponding aliases in your terminal .rc file to make this easy to remember: # Alias to run rubocop on the current branch’s diff from […]
Lately I have been looking for ways to make my smartphone less addictive. With the rise in popularity of e-ink displays like a kindle, I wondered if I could get a lot of the benefits of that minimalistic approach but with all the power of my smartphone. So I set out to convert my phones to running in grayscale mode. […]
Since rails-api was merged into Rails as part of Rails 5, the rails-api project has largely been abandoned, and for good reason. People who have a rails-api app will want to update to Rails 5 in order to stay up-to-date. Although the process is not hard, it is slightly different from a traditional update from Rails 4 to Rails 5. […]
Strategy #1: Take whatever you can find This is far too common. By definition, whatever you can find typically means a job that you can be quickly trained to do. This generally ends up being at a nonskilled job at a restaurant or a retail store or something like that. Any job that you can be quickly trained to do […]
So Scrum. The most popular agile software development methodology, with seemingly around 70% of agile teams using it. What is it all about? Is it good or is it whack? Has Scrum made our lives better? Let’s dive in. Scrum assumes you can reliably estimate task duration Scrum has good intentions. Measuring your productivity. Accountability to not do more or […]
Things individuals can do to protect Flow: Keep your phone on silent all day long. Disable all notifications on your computer. Distractions from a phone / computer can disrupt Flow dozens of times every day. Respond to text messages, phone calls, and e-mails when you get stuck. Distractions actually help you when you get stuck. Find music that helps you […]
One of the things that I’ve found is that my Angular services tend to have a lot of duplicate logic in them. The biggest culprit is HTTP calls for CRUD operations. Whether I’m using Restangular, ngResource, or plain ole’ $http, this has been a constant source of un-DRYing in my code. Let’s take a look at using ECMAScript 6’s class […]
Us developer sorts have an unusually hard time coming up with ideas. Often, non-technical folks have lots of ideas, but no ability to make them, and technical folks have the ability to build things, but no idea what to build. Both are rather humbling in their own way. Why is this? I think its partially due to the nature of our work, and […]
Recruiters and business leaders looking to hire software developers have a problem. No, it isn’t that coders are arrogant babies with superpowers and totally unrealistic job expectations. The problem is how recruiters communicate to the developers they hope to hire. Instead of enticing them and trying to buy their love with flamboyant company cultures that have more to do with […]