Essential Tools to find bugs... before they get to production

Developers now have access to free and inexpensive developer tools that can help find and fix many common application problems. These new APM tools are now an essential part of every developer’s tool set. Show me the tools!

I Kick Butt And Take No Prisoners

Celebrating a year at Bomanite this week by installing both Apache Web Server (Open Source designed for Unix and Linux) and the Web Server called IIS (Microsoft Internet Information Server designed for ...

Coaching Agile Teams - 6

Book Notes from 'Coaching Agile Teams' By Lyssa Adkins Coaching Product Owners on Running their Business Agile frameworks teach us to harp on business value delivered. We hold business value delivered ...

Adventures in NodeJS postgresql ubuntu and azure

Before I wrote about my angular2 experience. I currently have done a couple of A2 apps EveMarket And a static site:techonsiteAngular 2 and rxjs observables rocks the casbah!But now I have been researching ...

What Type of Web Hosting is Best for Me?

In this competitive era, websites are one of the most crucial aspects that help online ventures to create an inevitable reputation and attract the customers to view the products and services. Whether it ...

Changing service logon accounts via the back door

I’m installing a product that runs a service under a pre-determined logon account. I needed to rename the created account afterwards to get round a conflict somewhere else. Sounds simple – just modify ...

Windows 10 Update: Removes IE11 and gives you (a rough) ‘Edge’

Having waited until the last minute for a number of reasons I finally bit the bullet and updated my main Windows 7 x64 machine to Windows 10. It went smoothly but took several hours. Now it’s settled down ...

I'm not dead yet

Wow, where has the past year and a half gone? This post is just dusting things off around here. I am about to need a public place to post some things. I needed to update my DNS to a new host. I also needed ...

Coaching Agile Teams - 5

Book Notes from 'Coaching Agile Team' By Lyssa Adkins Coaching at the Very Beginning The coaching intervention at the beginning of the teams first sprint together sets the tone for much of what follows ...

What's the difference between “Solutions Architect” and “Applications Architect”?

Sharing this good Q&A from a post on stackoverflow. Thanks goes to Rex M!http://stackoverflow.com/... ...

It’s Curtains for Parse – What does it mean for Facebook and for Developers?

Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 While this may come as news to many people, it certainly is true - Facebook has decided to close down its Parse developer platform ...

Avoid ClickJacking in ASP.Net Core 1.0

Please do me a favor and read this on my Gooroo site. (if I get enough hits, I get a payment) Thanks! I recently received the status report of a penetration test of my ASP.Net Core 1.0 MVC site done by ...

Coaching Agile Teams - 4

Book Notes from 'Coaching Agile Teams' By Lyssa Adkins Let Your Style Change How long has it taken you to master tai chi? - I don’t know yet, im still practicing. How did it take you to become a master ...

Chef: file, remote_file and default setting for "backup" property

I just wanted to point out that if your Chef clients are running low on disk resources, it could be worth checking your chef/cache/backup directory for temporary artefacts. I was recently looking at a ...

What is Software as a Service and What are its Benefits for your Business?

Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE SaaS or Software as a Service is a cloud service that enables consumers to access software applications over the internet. These applications are used for ...

DAX Studio 2.4.1 Released

The next version of DAX Studio has just been released. You can download this release and read the release notes here Some of the highlights of this release are: Toggle Delimiters A toggle delimiter feature ...

Removing untagged Docker instances

Putting it here because I can never remember it..

docker rmi -f $(docker images -f "dangling=true" -q)

Coaching Agile Teams - 3

Book Notes from 'Coaching Agile Teams' By Lyssa Adkins Will You Respond Intelligently? EQ - Emotional Intelligence Quotient. The more skilled you become at mastering yourself - the more self-organized ...

6 Common Causes of Failure for a Blogger

Blogging and content writing is growing with a fast pace, as the competition is increasing new standards are being set in the world of blogging. This is to keep in mind that every blogger does not successful ...

Coaching Agile Teams - 2

Book Notes from Coaching Agile Teams by Lyssa AdkinsExpect High Performance Teams often get the basics of agile running within the first few sprints. Need to see different signposts and landmarks along ...

Coaching Agile Teams - 1

Book Notes From: "Coaching Agile Teams" By Lyssa AdkinsWill I Be a Good Coach? Nothing prepared me for the power and simplicity of agile done well. Project management was serious business - project managers ...

Scrum - Doing Twice the work in half the time - 12

Book Notes From: 'Scrum: Doing Twice the Work in Half the Time' By Jeff Sutherland Here's What You Do Tomorrow First step - put together a backlog and a team Think about the vision you have for your product ...

Scrum - Doing Twice the work in half the time - 11

Book Notes From: 'Scrum: The Art of Doing Twice the Work in Half the Time' By Jeff Sutherland Observe, Orient, Decide, Act Designed Scrum to allow a Product Owner to make decisions quickly, based on real-time ...

Scrum - Doing Twice the work in half the time - 10

Book Notes from 'Scrum: Doing Twice the work in Half the Time' By Jeff Sutherland Pop the Happy Bubble One thing that happiness is not - is complacency. Christa Foley - at Zappos : I love coming to work, ...

Scrum - Doing Twice the work in half the time - 9

Book Notes from 'Scrum Doing Twice the Work in Half the Time' By Jeff SutherlandHappiness People want to be happy Thomas Jefferson - Pursuits do seem to be what make us happy Mountain climbers seem unable ...

How to Find the Right Parse Alternative – Self or Cloud Hosting?

Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE The announcement of Parse shutting down undoubtedly disappointed many developers, but there is still good time for developers to decide what to do before ...

Scrum - Doing Twice the work in half the time - 8

Book Notes: 'Scrum The Art of Doing Twice the Work in Half the Time' By Jeff Sutherland Size Does Matter, but Only Relatively You have your list, you have prioritized the list Now you have to figure out ...

AngularJS2 on ASP.Net Core using TypeScript Part 3 - Attribute Directives

Previously we started creating our seed project then we created our first AngularJS2 app, on this post we will try to play with AngularJs2’s Attribute Directives. Basically, Attribute Directives allows ...

Scrum - Doing Twice the work in half the time - 7

Book Notes from 'Scrum - The Art of Doing Twice the work in half the time' By Jeff SutherlandWorking Too Hard Makes More Work Jon Katzenbach - head of Katzenbach Center at Booz Allen Hamilton Work too ...

Scrum - Doing Twice the work in half the time - 6

Book Notes from 'Scrum - The Art of Doing Twice the Work in Half the Time' By Jeff SutherlandTime and Time Again What makes Scrum so revolutionary. You get more stuff done - faster and cheaper - twice ...

Easy CRUD for Your Web API With Dapper

Full disclosure here: I don’t like ORMs. If you’re building an enormous enterprise project, you should absolutely use an ORM. If you have data you really care about and a complex, monstrous system using ...

Maximize your keystrokes before you die

Today’s topic/rant is not a technical topic but very relevant to techies in particular. Someone wise that I respect, one said “You have a finite number of keystrokes left in your hands before you die” ...

Scrum - Doing Twice the work in half the time - 5

Book Notes From 'Scrum - Getting Twice the work done in half the time' By Jeff SutherlandDon’t Hate the Player - Hate the Game Low team morale, cohesion, and productivity are based on a fundamental misunderstanding ...

What is IaaS (Infrastructure as a service) and what are its benefits for your business?

Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE Infrastructure as a service or IaaS is one of the fundamental service models of cloud computing that provide virtualized computing resources over the internet. ...

Scrum - Doing Twice the work in half the time - 4

Book Notes from 'Scrum The Art Of Doing Twice the Work in Half The Time' - By Jeff SutherlandScrum at War One of the most dramatic examples of cross-functional teams - military / Special Forces Each team ...

A tutorial on using Access 2010 web databases with Sharepoint

So let's say that you were asked by your organization to make an intranet "database" using access, and that because of organizational policies, etc. there is no option to have a real webserver like a LAMP/NGINX/IIS ...

Scrum - Doing Twice the work in half the time - 3

Book Notes from 'Scrum, The Art of Doing Twice the Work in Half the Time' By Jeff SutherlandTeams Teams are what get things done in the world of work. Teams are what make the world go round - and they're ...

Hosting your own Parse on AWS and Heroku

Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE How Can You Host Your Own Parse on Both AWS and Heroku Parse announced recently that its hosting service would be retired on January 28, 2017. This has of ...

Scrum - Doing Twice the work in half the time - 2

Book notes from: Scrum, the Art of doing twice the work in half the time. By Jeff Sutherland Whenever people are involved in a complex, creative effort - traditional management methods simply break apart. ...

Scrum - Doing Twice the work in half the time - 1

Book Notes from 'Scrum The art of doing twice the work in half the time' - By Jeff SutherlandFBI - Software development story After 9/11 turned into one of the biggest software debacles of all time. CIO ...

HANDS-ON LAB: Emulating Devices for Azure IoT Hub with SQL Server

In this post, I will explain how you can easily simulate dozens (or hundreds) of IoT devices to test your Azure IoT Hub configuration. Simulating IoT devices with dynamic data can help you test your Azure ...

IoT Weekly - IoT in Extreme and Off-Grid Scenarios

John Cohn & Tim Hahn discuss the convergence of IoT and Blockchain http://ibm.biz/blockchainan... John Cohn & Tim Hahn discuss how IoT is taking advantage of blockchain technology's promise to ...

Microsoft Azure Weekly - Cortana Intelligence Suite Overview

It Takes an Ecosystem to Build a Production Application - Wild Card Track Docker has made containerizing applications easy. This ease of use has given birth to a vibrant ecosystem of innovation. As more ...

Important features of taxi dispatch software

Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE The Top Reasons You’ll Love a Taxi Dispatch Software One of the best business opportunities today lie in developing a taxi dispatch software, especially if ...

Introduction to Application Pools in IIS

Intro to Application Pools in IIS Application Pools in IIS can be somewhat of a mystery. Since they’re created for you automatically many times Administrators don’t give them a second thought. But understanding ...

How to Choose the Perfect Parse Alternative

Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE The impending departure of Parse has left many developers in a fix. After January 28, 2017, Parse will no longer be available. The company is trying its best ...

Essentialism - G. McKeown 6

Book notes from Essentialism by Greg McKeownSleep No employee is expected to drive to work after a red eye flight Come in late after staying late at work the night before. Companies and leaders like these ...

How to avoid Parse like scenario in future?

Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE After acquiring Parse in 2013, Facebook turned Parse into one of its key developer platforms. But now with the closing of Parse, developers have to move their ...

Caller ID on Raspberry Pi

So I have gotten myself another Raspberry Pi 1 Model B. (from eBay with case, power supply and 8GB SD for under £20). I’ve plugged in an Edmiax WIFI USB Card. Plus the star purchase a £4 USB Conexant modem. ...

Essentialism - G. McKeown 5

Book notes from Essentialism by Greg McKeownPlay Embrace the Wisdom of Your Inner Child When we get older something happens. We are introduced to the idea that play is trivial. Play is a waste of time, ...