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Apr 8, 2018

The parable of the low-hanging fruit and the tree shakers

I am a software developer, not a management consultant. However, recently I was reading a book called “The McKinsey Way”, a 1999 meta case study on management consulting practices with McKinsey & Company. One thing that stuck out to me was a short section called “pluck the low-hanging fruit”. …

Software Development

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The parable of the low-hanging fruit and the tree shakers
The parable of the low-hanging fruit and the tree shakers
Software Development

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May 20, 2016

Lessons in Software Development from airplane crash investigations

Recently for whatever reason, my latest YouTube binge has been Smithsonian Channel’s airplane crash investigation documentary series. Each episode details a particular incident, then reconstructs the sequence of events that led to the crash, and how the investigators pieced it together. An airplane is a very complex machine, just like…

Software Development

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Lessons in Software Development from airplane crash investigations
Lessons in Software Development from airplane crash investigations
Software Development

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Apr 21, 2016

Life Hack #174: Facebook PathPicker (fpp)

Have you ever done this when you have a relatively large applicaton, or one that uses lots of symbolic links in a build? ‘git status’ YUGE listing of 100+ files What if I want to git checkout maybe the 2nd, 9th, and 20th items in that list? And being lazy programmers, how do I do it in the shortest amount of keystrokes? Facebook Path Picker (fpp) is a dead-simple command line utility that’s perfect for a scenario like this.

Web Development

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Life Hack #174: Facebook PathPicker (fpp)
Life Hack #174: Facebook PathPicker (fpp)
Web Development

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Apr 20, 2016

Life Hack #211: Oh-My-Zsh Syntax Highlighting

I’m always looking for some sort of command line workflow improvement — oh-my-zsh is great in its auto-completion plugins for many programs, but I recently discovered its counterpart, zsh-syntax-highlighting. I always have this problem that I fat finger some prefix, to get the infamous ‘command not found’. However, with syntax highlighting, it checks the $PATH dynamically so I can see if I’m about to fat finger a command.

Tech

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Life Hack #211: Oh-My-Zsh Syntax Highlighting
Life Hack #211: Oh-My-Zsh Syntax Highlighting
Tech

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Apr 19, 2016

Life Hack #293: Vimium

A colleague once remarked: “This guy! Lives in the browser.” Guilty as charged. I spend a lot of time in the Chrome Developer Tools debugging scripts, looking at why resources aren’t loading fast, and getting pixel perfection for UI components. …

Productivity

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Life Hack #293: Vimium
Life Hack #293: Vimium
Productivity

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Mar 21, 2016

Tutorialist Driven Documentation for developers

Have you ever heard this: “I really enjoyed reading that API’s documentation — it was well organized, with detailed, well-explained examples in our language of choice.” If so, I envy you. More often, this is the typical experience. [Google a specific error] [Top result: Stack Overflow. Some person has explained…

Web Development

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Web Development

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Feb 10, 2016

Towards a better developer onboarding experience

“I have to do WHAT to start the application?!” Sadly, this is the reaction of a lot of developers on their first day on the job. Tasked with “getting the new guy set up” you may launch a disjointed effort of pointing through old documentation, filling in knowledge gaps, and…

JavaScript

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JavaScript

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Feb 8, 2016

The Universal Mindset

The difference in work environment between front end and back end developers scales with the size of the organization. Medium to large organizations have dedicated back-end developers and similarly, dedicated front-end developers. In the last three years with the explosion in NodeJS and isomorphic/universal JavaScript, more business logic is being…

JavaScript

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JavaScript

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Jan 25, 2016

Product owners in the agile development organization

Previously, I’ve discussed the role of DevOps in agile organizations, and release management, but have not discussed very much the development and project-oriented management aspect of an agile organization. Agile gets the perception as having little management overhead, and that is true. However, there is still management to be done…

Agile

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Agile

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Jan 21, 2016

From the 12 factor app to the 12 factor agile organization

“We do agile” Are we really “doing agile”? Or, are we imitators, placing a fine veneer over top an otherwise dated development and delivery methodology? Recently, I’ve been thinking a lot about organizational process and the path to continuous delivery. …

Agile

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From the 12 factor app to the 12 factor agile organization
From the 12 factor app to the 12 factor agile organization
Agile

5 min read

Aaron Corso

Aaron Corso

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Full stack software developer, interested in #NodeJS, #startups, #DevOps, #Agile.

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