Between the 1600s and the late 1800s, thousands of people set off from the edge of the new American civilisation and headed West…
The Importance of Returning to the Office
Returning to the office is a controversial subject. Some organisations report that over 10% of their staff are threatening to leave if they are asked to return to the office at all, let alone full time. I have a perspective on this that comes from moving jobs during the pandemic. Continue Reading
How do you measure expertise?
What is expertise? How do you know when to promote someone? What’s the difference between a Mid-level and a Senior? What makes an expert an expert?
A Shortcut to Continuous Delivery
“Continuous Delivery” is a concept in software development where updates to IT products are promoted to production on a rapid cadence. Each organisation and industry is different, but delivering changes at least once a day is a commonly accepted definition. While there are obvious risks to releasing code at such Continue Reading
Public Property Setters Can Get In The Sea
I’m an unapologetic advocate of Object-oriented programming (OOP) and if you’re using an OOP programming framework I’m here to argue the case for burning your public property setters with napalm fire. As you probably know if you’re reading this, OOP is the discipline of expressing concepts as objects in code. Continue Reading
Can you make a Raspberry Pi Security Camera?
This weekend’s geeky challenge: Making a Raspberry Pi Security Camera. TL;DR – Here’s a basic, practically-ready-to-deploy, open-source Raspberry Pi security camera. Brief Mostly because I’m cheap (but partly to reduce the scope and therefore increase chance of success) I added a few constraints: Periodic still image capture is OK (streaming Continue Reading
Running an ASP.NET Core 2.0 app on Raspbian Stretch Linux on a Raspberry Pi with HTTPS
Today’s challenge: Serve a public API over HTTPS from a Raspberry Pi. I’ll follow up with an article about containerising the app and running it from docker on the Pi. This article is a fast-paced guide to getting started without stopping to dwell on the details. Some details will be Continue Reading