Jason, Author at Jason Fleetwood-Boldt

Sep

3 Videos about Agile and Beyond

Kevlin Henney, Seven Ineffective Coding Habits of Many Programmers (ITT 2016) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZsHMHukIlJY James Coplien, The Dehumanisation of Agile and Objects (GPTP 2017) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZrBQmIDdls4 Kent Beck, Extreme Programming 20 Years Later https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cGuTmOUdFbo ...

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Jason

Jul

Why You Need a Special DNS Provider on Heroku

Heroku is a robust leader in 12-factor deployment strategies. It is a large and feature-rich platform. You can deploy your app knowing that you are sitting on top of one of the best infrastructures on the planet for deployment and hosting. Importantly, when you are...

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Jason

Jun

Fix for RVM (Ruby Version Manager ) running on macOS Big Sur

What is RVM Big Sur? RVM stands for Ruby Version Manager and is a tool used by Ruby developers to switch between different versions of Ruby. Big Sur is the operating system released by Apple in Nov 2020, notably called macOS 11 for modern Mac computers....

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Jason

Apr

Same Time, Same Desk: Rails Conference and React Summit

Last week in a virtual chat room at the React Summit Kent C. Dodds was asked an interesting question: What does he think of Rails? “I hesitate sometimes with frameworks that abstract a lot. It certainly worked out well for Rails. If you fit within...

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Jason

Mar

The WFHpocalpyse Part 3: Remote Work One Year Later

Remote work was here to stay, or was it? In 2020 we explored how it was work remotely, but the shift is probably short lived in corporate America, where "face-time" gives people who show up an advantage. ...

Tech Industry

Jason

Feb

The How and Why of End-to-End Testing

Tested codebases are the most signficiant development from Rails and Agile over the last 15 years. End-to-end testing, in particular, is the defining reason why Agile and Rails have been so successful. Not writing tests should be seen as akin to malpractice in software development....

Programming, Tech Industry

Jason

Feb

Universal Track Manager 0.7.1 Released

Rubygems says my Rails engine (a gem) Universal Track Manager has crossed the 5000 downloads milestone. Interested in tracking page visits in a Rails app? Check out the newly upgraded SHA that makes querying for ad campaigns super-fast. This is quickly approaching a very solid,...

Programming

Jason

Jan

A “Free Hand” At the Bagel Shop (and, On Software Project Estimation)

Software development, like a bagel shop, has several queues encountering different wait states. Ideally, an efficient scrum reduces muda and muri (waste). Task switching is your enemy....

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Jason

Oct

The One About the Chickens and The Pigs (aka What Stand-up Is and What Stand-up Isn’t)

The one about the chickens and the pigs is an old part of scrum folklore. It is outdated and sexist. Its lesson however is still relevant....

Tech Industry

Jason

Aug

Getting Stuck on the Version of Rails In Your Bundler

Confusingly, bundler can have more than one version of Rails installed at once. In this short post, I will review how to check which version of Rails bundler has installed, and how to know which version of Rails you are using to make a new...

Programming

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Fix for RVM (Ruby Version Manager ) running on macOS Big Sur

Same Time, Same Desk: Rails Conference and React Summit

The WFHpocalpyse Part 3: Remote Work One Year Later

The How and Why of End-to-End Testing

Universal Track Manager 0.7.1 Released

A “Free Hand” At the Bagel Shop (and, On Software Project Estimation)

The One About the Chickens and The Pigs (aka What Stand-up Is and What Stand-up Isn’t)

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