Fixing my handwriting was a power up for me in that having handwriting that myself and others can actually read has been a huge win. I’ve read two books recently that were business related that have also been power ups,…
Author: pierce
You can fix your handwriting in 4 hours
My hand writing was awful. But I fixed it. Here’s the before picture. Note that its not even handwriting, its printing. That’s because like most people, I gave up on handwriting. Here’s the thing. Handwriting, or rather, connecting letters is…
Engineering processes: How to bootstrap good process in your startup
Ok, so you’ve got a small technology company and you’ve hit that threshold of about 4 people where it becomes glaringly obvious that you need to institute some process. Or perhaps your engineering team is smaller than that, but you realize that if you don’t spent at least a minimal amount of time on planning your work, you’re going to spend a lot more time doing the wrong work, the less important work, or delivering the wrong thing.
This article will help you bootstrap some minimal processes that will enable you to be much more effective. It should be enough to carry you to the point that you have to split engineering into multiple groups at about 10-20 people.
The Volt At one year Old
The Volt at one year old My volt is the best car I’ve ever owned. I’ve had it for a year now. I that time I’ve driven 6800 miles, 5800 of which were pure electric. The 1000 non electric miles…
New post on the Chegg Tech Blog
My latest post is about making sure you have enough states in your Service Oriented Architecture to make the system robust. You can check it out here. Posted with Blogsy
Why I don’t think MySQL is a good choice for the cloud
Databases are all about I/O speed. If you believe that 20% of the data is 80% of the queries, then any database over five times RAM is too large to be fast. In most businesses data over a year old…
Cupcakes instead of Layer Cakes and Mocks for Integration Testing
At every company I’ve ever worked at we needed more automated tests. The problem is that you can only do so much with Unit Tests in Cloud/Enterprise development. You need “integration tests”, but those become a huge pain in the…
Your Mileage May Vary: Why I bought a Volt
So it was time to replace my much loved Honda CR-V. I’d owned it almost 12 years, I’d put 141,000 miles on it, but it had reached that age where there was going to be a succession of little hassles…
Apple should offer a public cloud
Apple needs to become a public cloud provider. This will be an ambitious undertaking because frankly, they’re very far behind Amazon. But if they did so, it would be hugely successful. Because these days, every app you see ends up…
To Office for IPad or not to Office for iPad
So there were rumors this week that Microsoft was going to ship a version of Office for iPad. I have no opinion one way or another whether they will or not. But I admit to being intensely curious about…