Agile Development with Kanban One of my favorite methods of doing Agile development is with Kanban. The process is simple, fluid, and easily communicates project information to stakeholders. Kanban allows us to move to a Just-In-Time (JIT) method, which let’s face it – everyone wants everything today, now. Kanban Dependency Management So you switch over […]
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JPA and FlywayDB Together with Spring Boot
If you’ve used Spring Data JPA or FlywayDB for SQL generation, the next step is to use JPA and FlywayDB together for robust DB creation and migration work. JPA is great for entities. FlywayDB is great for writing more complex SQL statements and data population. If you have the bright idea like I did to combine […]
Distributed Agile Development with a Global Team
Businesses need distributed Agile Development to offer a first class service with 24×7 support. There are strategic benefits in the Agile software development life-cycle (SDLC) outside of cost benefits to this approach. Distributed Agile Teams Most teams that try to do Agile Development end up with a Frankenstein process that keeps the spirit but lacks execution. The […]
Architecting with the Millennial Engineer
You have a web application that you have maintained for a few years, relatively bug free, and stable. Your business is growing and you’re adding new features so you go out and find a new software engineer – a millennial engineer – just out of school. The new engineer is eager and excited, quickly sets up […]
Agile Development – What is it really?
There’s 100s of articles about Agile Development and it’s history so I’m not going to bore you with those details. A quick Google search can do that. What I’m going to do is really dive into why it’s such a buzzword, the supposed answer to every problem, and what it really means. Waterfall is soooo […]
Jolt – How to Augment JSON APIs By Using Transformations
I was recently introduced to a new library called Jolt (https://github.com/bazaarvoice/jolt). Jolt performs JSON transformations which allows a developer to convert from one JSON structure to another JSON structure using a transformation mapping (created using JSON) and not having to write code. This is pretty amazing for Java applications as it avoids having to call […]
Error: Node Sass does not yet support your current environment
So you just upgraded NodeJS and expect, like everything else out there, that you will restart your app and everything will be fine. When you restart the app though you run into this nasty error about Node Sass: Error: Node Sass does not yet support your current environment. You sigh, question yourself for thinking an […]
Facebook URL Sharing of AngularJS Application Hosted on Amazon S3
Building Single Page Applications (SPA) improves the user experience and increases performance of websites for customers. Unfortunately, these applications cause issues when those urls are rendered on social media sites such as Facebook. This article describes the steps necessary to enable Facebook URL sharing of an AngularJS application that is hosted on Amazon S3. Unfortunately, […]
WordPress Login Cookie Error When Using Varnish
Cookies are blocked or not supported by your browser. You must enable cookies to use WordPress. After setting up a server using Varnish this error would consistently rear its ugly head. The user would try to log in and be presented with this message every first try but could then try to log in a […]
Immediately-Invoked Function Expressions 101
Immediately-Invoked Function Expressions or IIFEs (pronounced like iffys) are one of the least understood core JavaScript concepts I’ve encountered when interviewing new candidates or engaging with new clients. 8 out of 10 have no idea what an IIFE is. 1 out of 10 can regurgitate the definition from Wikipedia. Only 1 out of 100 though actually […]