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Managing Your Team • Mar 28, 2017

Six Pitfalls on the Road to Valuable Custom Software

The best way to get real value from your custom software investment is to take a flexible, collaborative approach and avoid these six pitfalls.

Web Apps • Mar 27, 2017

Timing Your Queries in Knex.js for Node.js

I developed a method of logging the queries executed by Knex.js and the execution times for each query. It can be applied to nearly any app that uses Knex.

Personal Optimization • Mar 26, 2017

Emotional Intelligence, Part 3 – Improving Your Relationship Management

Three concrete tips for improving your relationship management, thanks to the book Emotional Intelligence 2.0 by Drs. Travis Bradberry and Jean Greaves.

Ruby • Mar 24, 2017

From Ruby to Crystal: A Quick Look

I'll definitely keep an eye on Crystal as it comes out of its beta phase. The syntax is familiar and easy to pick up and the performance is great.

Project & Team Management • Mar 23, 2017

The Case for the Camera: Tips for a More Productive Remote Team

Ruby • Mar 22, 2017

Parsing Excel Files with Ruby

I'll discuss the different types of Excel files and introduce some of the Ruby libraries that exist for working with them.

Swift • Mar 20, 2017

Four Tips and Tools for iOS Testing in Swift

A few of the iOS testing tools I’ve used to make life a little easier and code more correct when developing apps in Swift.

Exploratory Testing • Mar 17, 2017

Breaking the Cash Register (By Accident and Not for Profit)

Think about how things could go wrong with your process. Are you sure bugs can't slip through? And if they do, how would you know and handle the situation?

Developer Tools • Mar 16, 2017

Reflecting on Single-Page Applications

SPA frameworks promised to help the development and user experience. How have they lived up to the user experience promises?

TypeScript • Mar 15, 2017

Factory.ts: A Factory Generator for Test Data Using TypeScript

Using mapped types, making factories for test data is a cinch. And I can use mapped types to provide guarantees you simply can't get in a dynamic language.

Development Practices • Mar 14, 2017

Ancient Stoic Wisdom for Writing Better Software

The idea of via negativa doesn’t mean “do nothing.” Instead, it means striving toward simplicity and asking, “What can I take away?”

Mobile Apps • Mar 13, 2017

Explorations in Adapting Redux to C#

The Redux model to managing application state is great. See some implementation strategies to adapt the model to make great use of C# and .NET.