Agile Project Management for NonProfits

Semi-Automatic (Async Planning Poker Bot)

The AsyncVoter project has been humming recently. A lot of people interested in coding…

Azure MediaWiki Stack (part 1)

Okay, so how did we put this complete NHS HLP wiki instance together? Let’s go through it step by step:

Microservices vs Monolith

Full on day yesterday with Rails creator David Heinemeier Hansson (DHH) dropping by to chat to AgileVentures and…

Light at the End of the Stripe Tunnel

My hopes for a less than frustrating day were dashed as I worked through the ongoing Stripe test failures. Michael wasn’t around and I solo’d through some different alternatives. Rather than just burn time repeatedly in the long debug cycle of seeing if the Stripe…

Show me the Code (or do we really need Instance Variables?)

Azure MediaWiki Stack: part 2

I wasn’t able to complete a re-run of the NHS HLP MediaWiki installation previously, which was partly due…

Testing Slack Bots and Project Metrics

Wednesday saw me firing off a few emails to potential sponsors, which felt like a good…

Second Interview

So yesterday I found myself in a second interview for a “Ruby developer” job at the UK MOOC provider, FutureLearn. I’ve been…