Transparency, Inspection, and Adaptation

• A Journey Begins Sep 26, 2017 - 4 min read

  What happens when an agile CTI coach gets bored and knows someone that they believe has something to contribute to the agile software community? You basically get invited to co-present a conference talk, a helping hand to find your voice, plus an opportunity to start sharing your experience and point of view with others. Some time has passed and the memory has faded, so forgive me if I don’t get this exactly right in the telling of the story. Read More…

• Welcome Back Sep 12, 2017 - 1 min read

  It’s been awhile. I was gently shamed into this resurrection by a friendly text message - “YOU HAD A BLOG”. Certainly not the most impressive place for conference attendees to see what I’ve been up to and what I’m about. Let’s correct that now.

• Brewing Great Agile Team Dynamics Mar 1, 2017 - 1 min read

  Ever find yourself making a sour face after talking to a coworker? Wishing your team meetings felt more like an engaging social hour? There is hope. Those everyday conflicts where something seems “off” after a conversation are often related to differences in communication styles. When team members understand themselves and others, there’s less conflict, more collaboration, and better working relationships. The DiSC model can help you understand why your team behaves the way it does and how to build trust for a more agile team. Read More…

• Talks Mar 1, 2017 - 2 min read

  Oops, We Inflicted DevOps on our Business–Now What? with Allison Pollard It seems that everyone is aflutter with DevOps, the shiny new panacea for all of our software ailments. What technical goodness can DevOps bestow upon us? What riddles does it unlock for us as technologists? How do business goals align in order to wring the true value from DevOps? Delivering value faster is a desire of many business and IT leaders, and it often looks like a win-lose proposition to achieve it. Read More…

• TIL => ReportViewer Control, Less is More Jan 7, 2013 - 2 min read

  Stop me if you’ve heard this one: “Their IT staff is going to take care of that development …” And so it was recently on a project I am developing. A separate development activity was spun up to create the required SSRS reports which were to be hosted on a Report Server. Well the Report Server uses Active Directory accounts for authentication and authorization. The portal that I’m building essentially uses the ASP. Read More…

• e*trade has buggy client-side javascript Aug 18, 2012 - 3 min read

  Once a month I get a little reminder that I need to go pay my e*Trade credit card bill. Every month for as long as I can remember I’ve tried to use their user interface to pay off my current balance and been told by an error dialog that my selection is not valid. I have clearly selected a frequency of “One Time” and not “Once a Month” as the dialog box indicates. Read More…

• console.log anywhere Aug 5, 2012 - 1 min read

  My current assingment for Improvinghas me writing much more client-side javascript. I’m not a javascript ninja, so I lean on the console window to confirm that the script is doing what I expected it to do. This approach works great until I view a page in IE, which has no clue what “console” means and acosts me with script error popups. This finally got annoying enough that I started looking for a universal solution. Read More…

• Doesn't Play Well... Apr 30, 2012 - 1 min read

  I’ve been working on some “prototypes” for a new Improving client. One of our UX people told us to use Twitter Bootstrap and don’t look back. These prototypes are for a data entry focused application, so we’ve been using the Autocomplete Combobox to help speed things along. I tried to also use the bootstrap-buttons plugin in conjunction with it, but the buttons weren’t working as expected. I changed the markup to load the button plugin prior to the jquery ui script and the radio buttons looked and behaved as expected, but the auto complete comboboxes looked funky and were no longer acting like text boxes and default to select boxes. Read More…

• Adding CoderWall Badges Apr 22, 2012 - 2 min read

  I’ve picked up a few badges via CoderWall and I wanted to include them on the blog with the rest of the information in the right side column. CoderWall has instructions under the sub heading “Official blog badge” that detail how to interact with their web api for retrieving badges. My main investigation was how and where to include these snippets within the octopress templates. The comments included in the Octopress _config. Read More…

• Fixed Navigation Bar With Twitter Bootstrap Apr 18, 2012 - 2 min read

  Twitter Bootstrap has many very interesting features available. I really liked their fixed sub navigation menus for the feature pages. As you scroll past the subnavigation, it docs with the top of the scroll window and stays there. It also enables click navigation to other feature sections. I wanted to have the same functionality for my own html pages, so I started digging around. Looking at the page source, I saw an include for “/js/application. Read More…

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