Search Results: process
Why We Code Review, or: Why Does This Bottleneck Need To Be HeRE?!
…the author could not. By 1976 Fagan had turned that into a process with defined roles and measured outcomes, and formal inspection by someone other than the author became the standard. We were buying… [more]
What Makes a Senior Engineer Senior, and How Do You Build a Great Team?
…is nearly impossible to codify without killing it in the process. Once you have that word, the seniority ladder looks different. What separates a senior engineer from a junior one isn't a bigger… [more]
What Do Future Engineers Look Like?
…to our hiring rubric early, as we reshaped our engineering process and organization around the agentic production of software. Two of the four criteria we used no longer have a score of their own.… [more]
the megaphone
…clarifying and useful. But if it happens too early in the process of exploration, you effectively squash all the other branches of the conversation. And in an industry trying to innovate, this is… [more]
Team! A Module For Teams!
…OpsGenie, and JIRA to simplify the on call and support process. What I realized was that the more automation built that needed engineer meta information (github ID, email, JIRA ID, OpsGenie ID, etc.)… [more]
What Makes a Team Lead Great?
…can be a part of in life, and to lead is to engage in that process every day with your team. Ground your leadership in data, focus it on the people through empathy, and take vacations and you'll… [more]
Lessons Learned From a Film Producer About Making Software
…to see if he would be willing to come and talk about the process of producing films and TV. Having read his article about producing profitable films , I thought there were some strong parallels… [more]
Human Communications Are Hard
…are dramatic. Possibly more dramatic for the interview process. The paper mentions elsewhere that an increase in delay of 600 ms "was observed to [reduce the quality of the conversation]… about… [more]
2021: Year in Review
…and discusses all we’ve lost and gained in the process. Really good. Rising Strong - Brene Brown A really good book on team dynamics. Really enjoyed this one, enough that I wrote about some… [more]
Encourage teams to take risks
…went on a light hike with my mother-in-law who is in the process of converting her Ford Transit into a small camper van. Part of the process is cutting a hole in the roof to install a vent fan to keep… [more]
2020: A year
…started shortly before Inst went public, gone through that process, watched the stock with a little too much attention, and now Inst was in the process of being acquired by a private equity firm. I… [more]
Making the world more beautiful
…something that needs little augmentation, and that the process of becoming over time is true beauty indeed. [more]
monument
…event bus, we can push anything we want out into a worker process that triggers the correct event when it completes. Need to crop images? Spin that into a worker process and trigger an event on… [more]
Io: the language, not the moon
…running task from blocking while other things could be processing. There is only one real thread and it handles everything. But if you need to hand control back to the main execution stream then they… [more]
Learning the Trade
…focused but they have some really great human interest/process pieces that make it worth a listen. Articles: Responsive Web Design by Ethan Marcotte. The article that started it all. The Two Pillars… [more]
Design Tools are Broken
…those two and English is a missed step in most design processes. Partly because it is hard to do before implementation of the design has begun. 3. Responsive Layouts This one seems pretty… [more]
There is a Right Way
…should drive the choice of technology, team structure, and process. There is a saying that when you have a hammer everything looks like a nail, that has to be avoided for designs and projects to be… [more]
Short Circuit and the Javascript IF Statement
…So basically if you say if(false && true) Javascript start processing the expression sees the false, knows that the statement can never be true and moves on without ever touching the true. This has… [more]
Don't Call Me. I'll Call You. Single Request Responsive Images
…So in an effort to advance the discussion, and push this process even farther, here is a method for removing the double http request penalty associated with their system. Yep, you heard that right. 1… [more]
Hide the Admins
…-b). Use the login credentials that the startup process generates to login to the cherokee-admin http://yoursite.com:9090. Now that you are logged in go to the ‘Virtual Servers’ section and… [more]
Setting up Speed: Cherokee, Railo and CouchDB on AWS
…It changes every time so you will have to repeat this process every time you need to access the admin panel. Go to the information sources tab (top right with a gear on it) and create a new… [more]
Setting up Speed: Cherokee, Railo and CouchDB on AWS
…It changes every time so you will have to repeat this process every time you need to access the admin panel. Go to the information sources tab (top right with a gear on it) and create a new… [more]
Current Projects Update
…of the text. So I created typesette to automate that process. Random LDS Talk : Every once in a while I want to read a random religious article so I wrote a quick ColdFusion app that parses the RSS… [more]
Now Serving: Obsolescence
…to produce, have in large part become ephemera. As this process of cheapification accelerated through the 90s, and into the first decade of the new century, it began to have an interesting effect.… [more]
A Tale of Two Cookies: Securing ColdFusion Session Cookies
…to the algorithm you could repeat the encryption process with different cgi variables acting as seeds to keys ad infinitum. With that said this code, or something similar, makes sessions much more… [more]
Relaunch of DesignFrontier
…having worked for many hours, it's official. The redesign process has been exciting. Creating new features in new ways has been a blast. Is it done? Far from it. I am still working on the comment… [more]