Project & Team Management • Jun 24, 2015 Fighting Project Decision Fatigue with Policy Policies in the right places can help reduce decision fatigue from making decisions that don't have to be difficult.
UX/Design Techniques • Jun 23, 2015 Six Keys to a Successful Project Kickoff A successful project kickoffs is far more than the sum of its parts, no matter how well-chosen those parts are.
Web Apps • Jun 22, 2015 Speeding Up Your JavaScript Test Suite I just went through the practice of speeding up a large JavaScript test suite for my project. Here are some of the culprits I found and how I fixed them.
Extracurricular Activities • Jun 21, 2015 Spy on Your Garden with Garden KnowEms Garden KnowEms read temperature, humidity, light, and moisture and send data to a watering station or smart phone via BluetoothLE.
Personal Optimization • Jun 20, 2015 Learn the Stages of Sales & Become a Better Sales Person Understanding the stages is the first step toward addressing your weaknesses and improving your strengths.
Objective-C • Jun 19, 2015 Serialize Asynchronous Operations with ReactiveCocoa An example of how to use ReactiveCocoa's map and concat operators to serialize a sequence of asynchronous operations.
Extracurricular Activities • Jun 18, 2015 Getting Your Feet Wet – Tackling Your First Open Source Project Most big OS projects have more open issues than they can contend with, and any help is appreciated. Here are 4 ways you can start contributing today.
Ruby on Rails • Jun 17, 2015 Custom Validations in Rails Validations are a powerful tool to make sure an application's data doesn't become out of sync with its business logic.
DevOps & System Admin. • Jun 16, 2015 Commandline Craft: Creating a Craft Console Plugin How to create Craft console plugins to ease Craft automation from bash scripts, deployment scripts, and cron jobs.
Project & Team Management • Jun 15, 2015 Tips for Joining an Existing Software Team Tips to help you ease the burden of joining a software team that's already elbows-deep in their project.
Personal Optimization • Jun 14, 2015 Why Consultants Should Read ‘How to Win Friends & Influence People’ It's extremely difficult get to a win-win scenario or just have a serious productive discussion without having trust and respect in place.
Extracurricular Activities, Web Apps • Jun 12, 2015 Drawing Objects around an SVG Circle with D3.js For my upcoming wedding reception, I built an application that lets a guest view the table and chair they have been assigned.