Thursday, March 28, 2019

Monitoring Matters

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My mornings start with me reading my Google news feed. This morning included a story about Wow Air closing. Approximately four hours later I...
Tuesday, March 26, 2019

Your Brain At Work

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Your Brain at Work: Strategies for Overcoming Distraction, Regaining Focus, and Working Smarter All Day Long by David Rock My rating: 3 of...
Monday, March 18, 2019

Inspect Code

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Inspection of software design and code was first proposed by Michael Fagan in "Design and Code Inspections to Reduce Errors in Progr...
Wednesday, March 13, 2019

Smoke Gets In Your Eyes

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Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematory by Caitlin Doughty My rating: 5 of 5 stars A fascinating book with a lot t...

Hand-Test Every Component

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It might take 30 minutes to test a software component by hand with a few simple test cases. Do it! I am suggesting this in addition to, n...
Tuesday, March 12, 2019

Document Before You Start Coding

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This advice will seem strange to some readers, but it becomes natural after being practiced for a while. Comment Before You Finalize Your...
Friday, March 08, 2019

Kiss My Asterisk

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Kiss My Asterisk: A Feisty Guide to Punctuation and Grammar by Jenny Baranick My rating: 4 of 5 stars A fun way to brush up on grammar r...
Tuesday, February 26, 2019

Barking Up The Wrong Tree

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Barking Up the Wrong Tree: The Surprising Science Behind Why Everything You Know About Success Is (Mostly) Wrong by Eric Barker My rating:...
Thursday, February 21, 2019

Ethical vs Policy Crisis

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This past Christmas I read a lot of posts from my friends about their kid's love of Harry Potter and their Harry Potter themed Christ...
Tuesday, February 19, 2019

Android Incoming Call Fence

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I had lunch with a friend a few weeks ago. During the course of chatting he complained that his cell service provider has a add-on service...