Allen Holub

JANUARY 30, 2018

"It is wrong to suppose that if you can’t measure it, you can’t manage it—a costly myth." –W. Edwards Deming The Deming quote at the top of this post is often twisted into something worthy of Frederick Taylor: "if you can't measure it, you can't manage it." Deming would disagree.

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The Polyglot Developer

JANUARY 29, 2018

Charts are a great way to illustrate data within an application. No one likes trying to make sense of raw data or looking at it via a table. Instead a nice bar chart or line graph can paint a perfect picture of what’s going on. There are a lot of charting libraries available, but my personal favorite is Chart.js. It is a vanilla JavaScript library, so including it within a framework can be a little intimidating.

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Professor Beekums

JANUARY 28, 2018

Software development is hard. Bugs and inaccurate time estimates are a fact of life. Software is too complex these days for things to go exactly as we’d like. However, developers often add to the difficulty of software development by doing certain things that make it harder than necessary. I know I have. One of these tendencies is associating less typing with saving time.

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Tim Kadlec

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

I’ve made a few changes here, but hopefully, most of them went unnoticed. As I mentioned before, I’ve been wanting to invest more in my own site and content again. With so much I want to tackle—implementing WebMentions, syndicating book reviews to Goodreads, building a bookmarklet to make it easier for me to save links here—naturally I had to prioritize and put first things first.

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Allen Holub

JANUARY 28, 2018

The traditional daily stand-up meeting as generally practiced ranges from merely ineffective to a colossal waste of time. It's a band-aid that's hiding ineffective communication. First, some history. The 15-minute "stand-up meeting" is de rigueur for many Agile shops. It's been a standard practice from very early.

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The Polyglot Developer

FEBRUARY 2, 2018

Continuing down my adventure of learning about and investing in various cryptocurrencies, I thought I’d explore Stellar , which is what I understand to be, a competitor to Ripple. If you’ve been keeping up, you’ll remember that I had written about creating a Ripple XRP paper wallet in a tutorial titled, Generate Cold Storage Paper Wallets for Ripple XRP Coins with Angular.

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Rigor

FEBRUARY 2, 2018

Google recently announced the launch of their Speed Update. This change to how Google ranks websites for searches will now take mobile page speed into account in its ranking algorithm. This announcement is part of a Google’s ongoing efforts to incentivize good web performance. It makes sense, because, as we’ve said in the past, good website performance has implications on user experience.

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SQL Server According to Bob

JANUARY 28, 2018

I have found the term DTC is used in many ways so for the purposes of the discussion here are a few terms. When talking DTC, I am talking about the feature set, MSDTC as the OLE-TX implementation and XA for the X/Open XA implementation. DTC. Distributed Transaction Coordination – Generic term. MSDTC. Microsoft specific implementation for DTC using (OLE-TX).

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The Polyglot Developer

JANUARY 30, 2018

Job hunting can be one of the most time and energy consuming tasks we have to do. Unfortunately there isn’t a perfect formula but some tips could definitely help to alleviate the process or at least know that you are not alone. In the following article I will try to provide you with some tips and tricks when applying and preparing for a job interview as a Software Engineer.

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The Agile Manager

JANUARY 31, 2018

"This isn't to say that alternative approaches to management are dead, or that they have no future. It is to say that in the absence of serious upheaval - the destabilization / disruption of established organizations, or the formation of countervailing power to the trends above - the alternatives to the Freds will thrive only on the margins (in pockets within organizations) and in the emerging (e.g., equity-funded tech start-up firms)." -- Me , September 2013 I wrote that nearly 5 years ago.

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