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Free QiGong Video Routine
15 minutes/day, to better health. Only costs you some time. So, I'm a black-belt equivalent in #QiGong. It's fairly simple to do, and it will help improve your health, and help you recover from a health related issue. Do this…
How X.com Could Become the Best Jobs Site on the Planet
So there are problems with hiring engineers that no one is working on. Those problems are: The engineers who create bad resumes The hiring managers who write bad job descriptions The entire HR process, which has no feedback, and relies…
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.
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…
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…