Category: application development
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Why I Moved My Blog from Gatsby Back to WordPress
I have been building websites and blogging for the last 5+ years using self-hosted WordPress sites. This approach worked well for what I was doing, including building my own personal website. At the same time I felt—as a former coder and someone in the technology industry—I should probably be coding my own website. It almost…
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One Thing Developers Can Improve in Their Next Sprint
I’ve held many roles within the agile software development lifecycle, from developer to architect to scrum master. The one mistake I’ve seen developers commit over and over again is not including a sufficient level of detail in their user stories.
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4 Mistakes You Don’t Know You are Making as a Tech Lead
When you are a tech lead there’s no doubt that you have a lot on your plate. You not only have the responsibility of setting the technical direction for your team, but you also need to be in control of managing them. This includes the non-technical and less sexy parts of software development like managing…
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How to integrate UiPath with GitLab
Building bots can be fun. Losing your code, not so much. I’ve recently been building random attended bots using UiPath to automate things in my life and to generally play around with the technology. As some of these projects have matured to the point of utility, I’ve since started thinking about how to protect my…
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How to Automate Your Team’s Daily Status Report with Slack, Zapier, and Google Apps Script
See how a team working from home during the pandemic is able to automate the creation and submission of their daily status reports using simple tools like Slack, Zapier, and Google Apps Script.