This is the city, St Louis. I work here. My name is Rob. I write code. I carry a badge.
Back at my second real IT job, we did not have what some would call today “true” agile practices. I say that because we did a great deal of up-front design work, requirements gathering, and signoffs. Those are all things that most “agile” shops I’ve worked with avoid like the plague. Somehow though, at that job, we seemed … Read more Want Amazing Products? Build an Amazing Culture
Most days I leave all the programming stuff at work, where (for me), work belongs. I make it a point to not focus on work at home. Since I work for an employer, that effort I perform for them is to build someone else’s dreams. So I leave work at work, striving, never to let … Read more Learning for fun instead of “for the job”
Yeah I said it. Companies bigger than an actual startup, if you’re doing agile, just stop. Please for the love of the world, just stop. You’re likely kidding yourselves if you think you’re doing agile anyway. I have worked with small companies that are “doing agile” and I have worked at large companies that are … Read more For Non-Startups, Agile is Dumb, Go back to Waterfall
I’ve been doing some work for a website which would be deployed to Azure for both the website and the database. Here is a quick run-down on how the deploy situation went, an error that gave me fits and the final-fix. First off, let me say I had this website entirely working on my local … Read more Azure SQL Connection Error: No entity framework provider found for ‘system.data.sqlclient’
Whilst searching for a MacBook on Ebay, I came across this little gem and had to share it. HORIZONTAL VERTICAL PORTABLE LAPTOP BED STAND This impressed me so much I made a late-night-TV-commercial script for it! ** Disclaimer: I am only poking fun at late-night TV commercials and in general anybody who is simply too … Read more Laptop Bed Stand
We in the IT field have many buzz words with which to keep up. I find quite often that, people I talk to (when I’m not talking to myself) are confused as to the differences between a bug, a fix or an enhancement. So I thought I’d help clear up those terms today. The … Read more Terminology (Bug, Fixes and Enhancements)
I for one do not get all the “8 Hate” out there. Although I suppose that I shouldn’t be surprised. Each time that Microsoft releases a new version of Windows there is an giant amount of criticism. People hated Windows 7, people hated Windows XP. People have hated every version of Windows out there. So … Read more What is up with all the 8 Hate?
We’ve all heard of “let me google that for you” right? Fun little site where you can make your friends feel like the noobs they are. Ok maybe they aren’t noobs, don’t get cranky with me, k? For some time now, probably about a year and a half, I have have been using Google Voice … Read more Google Let Me Write That for You (glmwtfy)
Guys and gals, we’ve all done it. Written code without requirements. Me too. Guilty. However what is your preference? Are you the developer that needs a mountain of documentation that details your every line of code? Are you the developer that thrives on having some creativity by just having a loose outline of what is … Read more Get a clue! or .. write a requirement