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Project & Team Management • Jan 21, 2018

Kicking Off a New Consulting Gig – Three Things to Remember

Before you can start problem solving, you have to establish kinship, trust, and a good understanding of the situation at hand.

Developer Tools • Jan 20, 2018

Easily Reloading your Clojure Project in Spacemacs

With this configuration in place, I can tear down and reload my entire Clojure-based app, while it's running in a REPL embedded in Spacemacs.

Platforms & Languages • Jan 19, 2018

Choosing a Cloud-Based Accounting Platform

Integrating off-the-shelf accounting software into your app is cheaper to than building your own — with far more functionality. The hard part is finding the right platform for your

Growing as Makers • Jan 17, 2018

How Taking “Half-Steps” Can Further Your Career (& How Your Company Can Help)

Half-steps are a great, low-risk way for you and your company to experiment with new roles or ways of approaching workload and career development.

DevOps & System Admin. • Jan 17, 2018

Secure HTTP Proxy with Static IP

Set up a secure HTTP proxy with Squid and Docker on AWS ECS to provide a static IP address for your web applications running on Heroku.

Business Practices, Ruby • Jan 15, 2018

Monitoring Past Due AR with Xero and Slack

I've created a Ruby script that reports on past due accounts receivable in Xero, and automatically publishes that information to Slack.

TypeScript • Jan 15, 2018

Flavoring: Flexible Nominal Typing for TypeScript

TypeScript flavoring allows unbranded values to be implicitly converted into the branded type, but doesn’t allow implicit conversion between branded types.

Personal Optimization • Jan 14, 2018

Four Questions I Ask Myself When Deciding What to Learn Next

With a plethora of development topics and resources available, choosing one can be a daunting task. Here are a few questions I ask myself.

Growing as Makers • Jan 13, 2018

How Markdown Helps Me Take Better, Faster Notes

Note-taking in Markdown, using either Bear or VSCode, has helped me stay more focused and take better notes during meetings.

Managing Your Team • Jan 12, 2018

Want to Increase Your Custom Software ROI? Trust Your Team

If you don't trust your team enough to share the project's big picture goals, you'll never get their best work. True collaboration is built on trust.

.NET / WPF • Jan 11, 2018

Pattern Matching in C# with Switch Statements

C# 7.0 introduced pattern matching support in its switch statements. Here are some examples of how you can now switch on object types, etc. in C#.

Project & Team Management • Jan 10, 2018

Three Ways To Empower Your Team as a Senior Developer

It's easy for senior devs to become the entire voice of their team and make teammates feel unappreciated. Here are 3 ways I've found to counteract that.