Let’s talk about teaching app development to 8-12 year-old girls. It’s difficult to keep any 8-12 year olds focused in general, so how do you do it with a lot of patience and fun? Last week, I volunteered at a STEM student technology camp at Pacific University to do this very thing. I was there … Continued
Recently, I had the opportunity to attend the Technology Association of Oregon’s talk, “Role of a Project Manager in an Agile Environment.” The audience was full of product owners and project managers interested in the daily life of a ScrumMaster. What does this person do? (Like it’s a mysterious animal out in the wilderness.) A … Continued
The Scenario So I was working away on an EF6 / WebAPI / AngularJS project when I ran into an odd issue. I had secured my WebAPI using OAuth and required that the user provide a bearer token on every request. The strategy / workflow worked like this: 1. User browses to https://myproject.domain.net/login 2. Angular’s … Continued
Recently I was engaged in an AngularJS project that spent a little time switching between views. Okay, well the term “a little” is pretty subjective. As we all know, the more thumb-twiddling a user does while waiting for a response from a server, the less likely they are to use your app, or at the … Continued
My last post took you though setting up boot2docker on your system and provided a quick cheat sheet on how to configure and interact with it. In this post I will be laying out a running list of the commands I use with docker to get the most out of my containers. What is Docker? (From docker.com) Docker allows … Continued
Here’s an Entity Framework scenario for you: You’re using Entity Framework 6. Check. You’re using a custom database initializer to init your DEV and TEST databases. Specifically the DropCreateDatabaseAlways initializer. Yup, that’s me. Your project contains 1 or more Unit Test projects that utilize the above. Do you have a unit test project? Say yes. … Continued
What IaaS Means To You These days Infrastructure-as-a-Service has almost become as common-place as the ubiquitous Software-as-a-Service. Particularly in the last decade as the concept of Cloud Computing has evolved to become a more mainstream, affordable and sensible option. Small organizations looking to leverage economies of scale are no longer faced with stacking costly servers … Continued
The Challenge Are you struggling to align your software product roadmap and delivery with the marketplace demand? Maybe you’ve asked, “We have a talented software development team, so why are we constantly behind our competitors to get working software that is valuable to our customers out the door?” Or, as I often hear, “Why can’t … Continued
boot2docker – Remote Docker daemon boot2docker is a lightweight Linux distribution based on Tiny Core Linux made specifically to run Docker containers. It runs completely from RAM, weighs ~27MB and boots in ~5s. boot2docker is required if you want to do any work with docker images on a Macintosh. This includes building images and running containers. … Continued
Azure Machine Learning This month, Microsoft GA’d their offering into the cloud machine learning space, Azure Machine Learning. For those that have done data mining in analysis services, both the workflow and the mining models should be familiar. In A Breath If you haven’t already been briefed, machine learning is often used as a way to … Continued
