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Jul 29, 2020

Too Many Hammers

Learning to Live With A Plethora of Communication Tools — As I sit to write this in 2020, we find ourselves with an embarrassment of riches: Slack, Microsoft Teams, Skype, Sharepoint, Asana, Trello, Dropbox, Zoom, Google Hangouts, Yammer, iMessage, WhatsApp, Facebook, Twitter, Snapchat and I could go on and on; we have more rich tools that can be used to…

Communication

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Too Many Hammers
Too Many Hammers
Communication

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Jul 29, 2020

My Favorite Interview Question

While I wouldn’t consider myself a master interviewer (I feel like I need to do just fifty or sixty more to really start getting into a groove), I have landed on what I think is my favorite question to ask potential software developers: “I have two implementations of the same…

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Jun 10, 2018

Shine a Light: Debugging Aptify Internals

The time inevitably comes for any Aptify developer where they run into some sort of inconsistent or undesirable behavior. The question then becomes: “is this a bug in a customization, or is this a bug in the core product?” …

Programming

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Shine a Light: Debugging Aptify Internals
Shine a Light: Debugging Aptify Internals
Programming

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May 21, 2018

The BARS Scale

Nearly five years ago, I was looking over some code a former developer had written, and I started to have the same thoughts that I’m sure so many other developers have had cross their minds: Why did they do this in this way? Why didn’t they use method X or…

Software Development

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The BARS Scale
The BARS Scale
Software Development

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May 8, 2018

Hack the World: How We Bent Aptify Web to Our Will

Note: the concepts explored in this post can potentially cause data loss or other issues if not implemented properly. Any customizations should be well tested in a development system before reaching your production environment. But you knew that already, right? When our organization started rolling out Aptify Web to end…

Aptify

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Hack the World: How We Bent Aptify Web to Our Will
Hack the World: How We Bent Aptify Web to Our Will
Aptify

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Nov 16, 2016

It’s not a “liberal” thing; it’s not a “conservative” thing; it’s a human decency thing

As I’ve shared articles and posted comments on Facebook, I’ve seen a refrain from some Trump supporters criticizing me as a “libtard” or saying that I’m just brainwashed because I went to college. …

2016 Election

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2016 Election

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