Read/sing to the beat of Gary Numan’s EngineersThe Pleasure Principle debuted at number one September 1979. Beggars Banquet Music Ltd. All that we areIs all that we need to beAll that we knowIs code and machinerySoftware engineers We are your Heartbleedwe are your synth lifewe are your ‘help-line’We keep you online, For nowSoftware engineers Cortana’s …
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ecahill is a secure web site
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. No need to panic, free certificates are available through Let’s Encrypt to enable HTTPS. Let’s …
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”. …
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 …