Software Engineers

Read/sing to the beat of Gary Numan’s Engineers
The Pleasure Principle debuted at number one September 1979. Beggars Banquet Music Ltd.

James Cahill Numanoid Pips
Pips behind The Cathedral

All that we are
Is all that we need to be
All that we know
Is code and machinery
Software engineers

We are your Heartbleed
we are your synth life
we are your ‘help-line’
We keep you online, For now
Software engineers

Cortana’s your voice
Logic your blood flow
AI’s your eyes
We’re all you need to know
Software engineers

All that we are
Is all that you’d love to be
All that we know
Is code and machinery
Software engineers

ecahill is a secure web site

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Secure https

Google’s move to mark http sites as “not secure” prompted me to activate an SSL certificate a few weeks ago. In October 2018, Google will show a red not secure* warning on HTTP pages that ask users to enter data.

Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy author Douglas Adams
Photo by Daily Mirror/Mirrorpix/Mirrorpix via Getty Images

No need to panic, free certificates are available through Let’s Encrypt  to enable HTTPS.  Let’s Encrypt, @letsencrypt,  are a certificate authority (CA) that provide trusted certificates for free in order to implement best practices for TLS, transport layer security. NB: people may still use the term SSL, secure socket layers, even though they have upgraded to TLS.

Geeks can try  Let’s Encrypt How It Works to understand the details .

* marking HTTP as “not secure” accessed 8/31/2018.

 

 

CodeStock 2016

CodeStock schedule:
I’m scheduled for Saturday 9:00am – 10:10am.

Attend the keynote at 9AM Friday to get your weekend off on the right foot.
Say “Hi” if you see me at other sessions, such as @sfradkin “Live Coding Music: A Creativity Break for Your Programming Soul”
or @JamesBender “How I Learned to Love Dependency Injection”.

Mark A. Wilson @DeveloperInfra will bring you up-to-date on “Authentication Using OpenID Connect and OAuth 2.0”

If game design is your thing, go see @ViNull.

@pcameronpresley has two sessions on SOLID and testing that look extremely useful.

codestock

That’s Agile

True story

Posted to my original site circa May 2014

This week in a business requirements session, a product owner sighed, “If only we could break it down and see one piece working before we start on the next piece. Could we do that?”

“That’s Agile!” I said, he looked at the business analyst as if to say “is she having a laugh?”, but she confirmed that it is a valid methodology, and she had worked with programmers applying it on other projects.  The timing was perfect because, yes, I would love to do that, and I was even registered for the TriAgile conference two days later.