Sometimes you need to serve some local static content over HTTP/HTTPS for testing SPAs or other things.
I recently stumbled across the dotnet-serve tool which is a dotnet cli global tool. It provides similar basic functionality to the Python module, however it also allows you to do a couple of extra things like returning headers, enabling HTTPS, and enabling content compression.
As an Australian developer, I'm always fighting with applications that default to US date formats. I was recently working on an Angular 8 application which was using the DevExpress DevExtreme components. The problem was that the date controls kept formatting my dates as MM/DD/YYYY which isn't helpful
I had a look at the DevExpress documentation and struggled to configure it to use my Australian date formats. It took longer than I expected to figure out the trick, so I thought I'd document it here for anyone else who gets stuck.
When you're at work meetings, have you ever noticed how many people will just find all the reasons why something won't work?
Have you ever worked with someone who, rather than doing this, moves towards the outcome whilst working around the challenges. "yes, we can do this, and we need to manage these risks"
Employees of large companies waste millions of dollars every year having circular arguments about why particular activities won't work. These activities are time-consuming, frustrating, and largely ineffective.
A while ago I was introduced to the term "Institutional Yes" vs "Institutional No". The way I see this idea is that any given organisation will have a predisposition or culture towards having a positive or negative attitude towards the possibility of taking action.
As the end of another year approaches, it's always a time for reflection on the last 12 months. Family, and community, is a vital part of civilisation. Familial bonds are what has made the human race so pervasive and successful. In every extended family there are a variety of diverse members with mix of gender and age. Yet in the global technology community (and STEM to a broader extent) this diversity is lacking, both in gender, and race.
Many in the industry will disregard this to a "pipeline problem", a lack of interested candidates from an early age. And, whilst I agree that this is a major aspect of the problem, I don't believe it's the only one, and there's another one which may be simpler to improve.
Have you ever attended a conference or workshop where you wish the presenter could easily share their slides? Or, are you a presenter and you'd like to share your slides with the audience in a frictionless way?
The longer you work as a software developer, the most likely you are to need to learn a new language or development stack. As I've done this many times, I've discovered a few tricks that help get me productive quicker. So, what are those things?
If you could change just one thing in your life by forming a new habit, what would it be?
In July 2018 I left my full-time job after working at that company for nearly seven years. The company had gone through an acquisition and the culture and focus of the business had taken a turn away from my passion. Over the preceding months I had become pretty unmotivated and wasn't being very physically active.
Life events like changing jobs give us pause to reflect on things and realized that I hadn't been doing things that were important to me, like regular exercise, catching up with friends, and eating healthily. Given that I was about to start a new routine, I decided that would try to exercise every day.
I've recently been talking to people about my new “FinTech” venture and I’ve discovered that this term isn’t very well known outside the startup community. In the last few years there have been a number of new terms popping up all over the place. BioTech, FinTech, MedTech, etc…
Friday 27th July is my last day at Tatts/Tabcorp and I wanted to say thanks to everyone who has made my last few years at Tatts a memorable time. I've had the privilege of working in almost every area of technology, either directly or indirectly, through the improvement team. I've also been lucky enough to get to meet a lot of people from different areas of the business through leadership programs and fund-raisers!
For people who work in a technical profession it's vital to continually learn and grow our skills to keep up with the pace of change. However, one area that's too often neglected by technical staff is that of leadership. For the past few months I have been participating in a new Technical Leadership Accelerator program which focuses specifically on leadership skills for technical professionals. The course just finished a couple of weeks ago and I wanted to write a bit of a review.