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,…
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…
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 It is outdated and sexist.…
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…
Remember how strftime works in Ruby? Neither do I.
For a Good Strftime lets you easily create the Ruby syntax for strftime. Just select how you want your dates:…
Google Analytics Part 2 (#31)
Google Analytics is the all-in-one free tool for website traffic analytics. Today's post explores Audience (who your visitors are), Acquisition…
Google Analytics Part 1 (#30)
Google Analytics is the absolute must-have view into your website traffic. Location, device, behavior, referring site or advertisement, events, and…
Down For Everyone Or Just Me (#29)
DFEOJM let's you see if a website is down for everyone in the world or just for you.
ViewDNS.info (#28)
ViewDNS is the omnibus DNS tool for everything and everyone! Reverse IP, Reverse Whois, IP History, a full DNS report,…
MX Toolbox (#27)
MX Toolbox lets you examine your domain's MX, SPF, DKIM, and DMARC records in your DNS settings.