5 posts

• 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.

  30 September 2021

  • application-development
  • blogging
  • gatsby
  • wordpress

• 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.

  22 January 2021

  • application-development

• 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.

  19 January 2021

  • application-development
  • leadership

• 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 code.

  19 October 2020

  • application-development
  • automation
  • productivity

• 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.

  30 September 2020

  • application-development
  • automation