Resolving Issue With Code Example In Lightweight Django Chapter 2
I’ve been reading through the book ‘Lightweight Django’ by Julia Elman and Mark Lavin and I was having a lot of trouble getting the final example in Chapter ...
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Looking To Start Or Join a Support Group Of CTOs And Engineering VPs In Chicago
Here’s something I just posted on Hacker News - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11643390
Tips For Technical Managers On Writing Better Employee Reviews
At Cappex.com, we do formal employee reviews twice a year and being that it’s already May, I’m starting to think about writing reviews for folks on my team. ...
Resolving Tethering Issues With iPhone
I spend roughly an hour and a half Monday through Friday commuting to and from work and my laptop is tethered to my phone probably 90% of the time I’m on the...
Deleting Non-empty AWS Glacier Vaults
I had a couple of AWS Glacier vaults that I had been meaning to permanently delete for awhile. When I tried deleting them via the AWS dashboard, I got the f...
Selenium WebDriver and JavaScript Confirmation Dialog
One of many things I had been wanting to accomplish in the 2nd half of 2015 was to start making some hands-on contributions to my team’s functional test auto...
Measuring The Performance Of Java 8 Parallel Sort
I was curious as to the performance improvement of Arrays.parallelSort over Arrays.sort.
Managing The Unmanageable And Behind Closed Doors
Whoops. I started working on this blog post all the way back in mid-February and it’s now mid-April. Life has been busy. Work is busy. Being a dad to a 9...
Why Android Sucks
Android sucks. At least my experience of it has. Now, I’m NOT saying that Android-sucks-therefore-Apple-is-way-better. All I’m saying is that I’ve had 3 A...
Clean Code A Handbook Of Agile Software Craftsmanship
Something I’d like to start doing in 2015 is to write a blog post after finishing a book, provided that there are at least a few key takeaways. I’m thinking...