Agile is Dead? About 15 years ago I was in a conversation to two women and one brought up her new “cool” shoes. The lady with the shoes said “Do you like these? I got them at Target and they are sooo cool.” We looked down at them — basic Nurse Ratchet shoes with a […]
Like many, I use Xmarks plugins to manage my bookmarks across multiple web browsers. Recently the Xmarks install on Chrome was breaking. I sync anything and got a 503 error. After spending some time looking into it and finding no answer on the Xmarks site or anywhere else, I decided to reinstall the plugin, which […]
Tonight is the first of the hands-on developer meetings – Ale and Algorithms – for our EC Tech Meetup at the Milwaukee Burger joint in Eau Claire. 7 pm. Tonight I’m hoping to work on some problems including Fizz Buzz Armstrong Numbers Prime Number detector Reverse a String without API use Since the meeting is […]
In 2012 in St. Paul, Minnesota the Team One Club was founded for the exclusive developer of discerning taste. Membership includes nights out with Rocky Patel, Padrón, Doña Erô and Cohiba cigars and the finest of craft beer, scotch and rye whiskeys and of exceptional dining events.
Check this device out: my old Palm M500. I dug it out of the boxes to see how it would work as a night bed reader, because it uses very little juice, you don’t need an overhead light (it’s backlit) and can do a reverse-color thing to keep the light wash down. Also, no internet […]
Our team had some of us working on master in our git repository, and a refactor was done in a branch so the team lead decided we should all move to from the master to the branch because the merge was painful for this particular feature. If you have this situation and a few commits […]
If you shift-ctrl-f or have a save function set to reformat your code in Eclipse, you stop it from formatting a java comment by using a “-” at the top: /*- * Ignore Formatted Code Block * * myMethod() * * Main Point * sub point * * @method * @paramater * @exception */ If […]
April 4, 2014 author’s note: A short time after I posted this a story broke on JavaScript inventor and Mozilla chief Brendan Eich related to this topic. I have a comment at the finish of this article. It was some years ago when I worked on a project at a business that specialized in one […]