The intent of this is to provide a quick, simple, fun and inexpensive alerting beacon that can be connected to any type of service and be used as a visual notification that "something" is happening. The more concrete use for this is when you have a need for »
The intent of this project is to use the Pager Duty API to create a test alert and then follow up on the alert with a check to see if any team member has acknowledged the alert with in a given time frame so that teams can verify that the »
I recently saw what I thought was a pretty stinking amazing movie. Not that the acting was particularly great (though I do find something weirdly fun about Ben Stiller - might have been him in another epic movie that set the tone for me). Have a watch, I'll still be »
A PowerShell based testing framework that helps you test your nuget packages. Testing your nuget packages can be difficult especially if you're trying to write tests to be run on build server where Visual Studio might not be installed and if you have my custom things built into your packages »
Its funny how the little things always hang us up. I get asked frequently what is the difference between git fetch and git pull at least once a week and sometimes it's by the same people. This originally made me think that I was not doing a good job of »
The intention of the project is to have some sort of configuration gathering that can gets the system info from one machine that can be used to generate a close to identical match on another machine or virtual. This is ideal for troubleshooting software in environments not owned by the »
So it's dark and you're on some back road driving like you own a light cycle. You come around a corner at blazing speeds and wham! You get hit with light from some on coming drivers high beams. Given that you had yours on as well you quickly switch to »
What could a developer say about the end of an 8 year awesome head-spinning journey and the beginning of an amazing God driven adventure? craft> fellowshiptech.pop "Nick" craft> newrelic.push "Nick" For the past several months I have felt the absence of peace »
[tl,dr] Ask yourself (and your developers) is what I am doing what I want to do? If I am doing side projects what makes those so interesting? Because if they are really where I volunteer my "free" time then why is that not my day job? If »
When you use software do you find yourself to be frustrated or helped? When I design or build something I have a hard time seeing it from the end-user's perspective; I get too excited about the idea or flash of potential. Detaching myself and deciding that I am a user »
Here's a book I pretty much keep in hand all the time: Continuous Delivery by Jez Humble and David Farley. Not that it's a really super enjoyable read, but it helps me remember how doing this software thing we do can be awesome for both the dev and user. This »
