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Re: Minimum Viable Project Management

stevenhaddox — Fri, 25 Mar 2016 14:10:48 -0000

I fully agree with what you're describing here. I've been a fan of the Kanban approach for this, but the key for me is to make sure these "extra" features / ideas / dreams that aren't part of the very first release go somewhere unimportant (and to me that can even just be a backlog / icebox, but it better not be displayed on my main task board).

If the current releases features are identified in a pretty simple and fully understandable sentence then you've already taken the first step of BDD in some form. Acceptance criteria is great if you have a customer who might seem a bit over the top picky, but if it's a personal, team, or company product then acceptance criteria really are useless for exactly all the reasons you've specified. Keep it simple, write beautiful code, and get it deployed.

Thanks for sharing your process and thoughts!

Re: Recurring events in Ruby

stevenhaddox — Thu, 11 Feb 2016 05:26:12 -0000

Many many years ago (2006 I think), a coworker and I had to implement recurring events in Python and Plone using the Zope Object Database. It took us several months to work through how to handle this huge undertaking and I'd dare say our end result was not nearly as graceful as what you've come up with here. Thanks for putting in such care and clarity to this gem, it looks amazing. I, for one, appreciate the effort it's taken you!

Re: 2015 Rails Rumble

stevenhaddox — Mon, 16 Nov 2015 00:04:16 -0000

Any chance this will be open sourced or at least a little clarification provided as to what criteria were used for the four categories you can select to trade on?

Awesome tool and I love the feel of it all. Definitely made it in my top list >.<

Re: 2014 Rails Rumble

stevenhaddox — Tue, 13 Jan 2015 15:06:01 -0000

Haha. No apologies needed. I searched on GitHub immediately following my post and found it. Huge thanks again!

Re: 2014 Rails Rumble

stevenhaddox — Tue, 13 Jan 2015 14:43:30 -0000

Any update on this by chance? Would love to get it deployed in our internal org for use :)

Re: 2014 Rails Rumble

stevenhaddox — Mon, 27 Oct 2014 14:03:34 -0000

Awesome news! To clarify, I'm thinking more of refactorcop itself having it's code base available for use in enterprise intranets or similar. Congratulations again on the win, it was definitely well earned.

Re: 2014 Rails Rumble

stevenhaddox — Mon, 27 Oct 2014 10:40:32 -0000

We were just looking for a web-based Rubocop linter this past week, and this nails it. Any chance you're planning on an open source version for folks to be able to use on corporate / personal servers?

Re: Keeping it Simple: Migrating to Pundit from CanCan

stevenhaddox — Tue, 22 Oct 2013 12:20:40 -0000

Ha ha! I knew the blog post was new. I should've specified that I wish I'd come across the library a few months ago :P

This is an excellent write-up of how to get started with it all though. Thanks again :)

Re: Keeping it Simple: Migrating to Pundit from CanCan

stevenhaddox — Tue, 22 Oct 2013 08:52:00 -0000

Awesome write up. Wish I'd come across those few months ago!

Re: Forty-Two

stevenhaddox — Thu, 12 Sep 2013 07:30:20 -0000

I know this is incredibly late, but I just came across your post on CollectiveIdea about raid.it and am quite interested in the idea of interactions. I'll definitely be checking this out and trying it out in some new apps to see how it feels. Thanks for taking the time to try something different and create so many detailed posts about the process!

Re: Kochiku: CI for long test suites

stevenhaddox — Wed, 11 Sep 2013 11:22:28 -0000

Thank you so much for open sourcing this! This is precisely what I've needed for years. A simple to deploy, Ruby / Rails / node friendly CI server that deploys with common Ruby server setups in minutes. This will help so many people in Enterprise environments. I can't begin to thank all of Square enough for sharing!

Re: How to track ActiveRecord model statistics

stevenhaddox — Thu, 06 Jun 2013 07:37:34 -0000

Have you considered using Rails Notifications (http://api.rubyonrails.org/... for this? Seems like it would be a nice fit...

Re: katie.cupcake: Never Done

stevenhaddox — Tue, 14 Aug 2012 14:02:16 -0000

I **always** feel this way! My to-do list is always forever long. If only in my head, I try to keep the way distant things off of it until it's more of a priority. That way the unimportant stuff just disappears. If it's truly important it'll persist either in my mind or get written down at the point it's actually **that** important.

I too like little confidence boosters. Even if it's just "get milk", I still try to add it to my app and swipe right to get that check-mark and remind myself that 20 minute delay into work wasn't just me being lazy (like it usually is).

But yes, I couldn't agree more with your thought process. Sometimes it feels like it'll never get done, but that's half of the challenge I think. Proving to yourself you can :)

Re: katie.cupcake: Today

stevenhaddox — Fri, 10 Aug 2012 14:04:20 -0000

I really hope it's not an hour and a half today for my commute... Not the best of days over here either. We must have caught the same bug or something :(

Re: katie.cupcake: Disney World - Magic Kingdom

stevenhaddox — Fri, 03 Aug 2012 09:45:28 -0000

Aww. Thanks Holly! We had an awesome time, going without some things the next few months so we can try and go again soon. We're kind of addicted to Disney! :)

Re: katie.cupcake: Disney World - Epcot

stevenhaddox — Thu, 02 Aug 2012 12:24:46 -0000

I'm sure Katie will reply to this soon, but I happened to notice so thought I'd chime in. We used our Nikon D3100 and I think Katie primarily had the 50mm lens on it for most of our trip (it tends to be our go-to lens).

Also, I agree. Katie takes amazing photos. Much better than when I'm behind the camera :P

Re: katie.cupcake: Wizarding World of Harry Potter

stevenhaddox — Thu, 02 Aug 2012 12:21:27 -0000

Thanks for taking the time to blog our trip so well! I'll be looking at these posts for years to come!

One minor comment, Indiana Jones is actually part of DisneyLand I believe. I didn't notice anything for it at Universal, but I could be wrong if it's somehow licensed at both places.

Keep up the amazing photos and posts lovely!

Re: How to Write a Cleaner vimrc

stevenhaddox — Fri, 27 Jul 2012 08:21:10 -0000

The statusbar shown is from Powerline (https://github.com/Lokaltog...

Re: katie.cupcake: Family Trip

stevenhaddox — Wed, 18 Jul 2012 13:45:58 -0000

Thanks for taking the time to document our adventure lovely! I really need to make more time to do it as well, but you'll always do such a better job at it then me ;)

I had a great trip (in spite of the traffic, upset stomachs, and not-so-great-sleep) and really appreciate your patience and help throughout all of it. It's been way too long since we saw my family. I hope we get to make a trip out that way next year sometime!

Re: Apparently, Shazam Does A Lot More Than Just Tag And Track Songs

stevenhaddox — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 17:48:53 -0000

Ha! You'd still get a ticket in MD probably. You're not allowed to read **any** wireless communication (which would include a song title unfortunately). Glad you got off though!

Re: katie.cupcake: Saddest Day! Betsey Johnson is closing!

stevenhaddox — Fri, 27 Apr 2012 11:36:13 -0000

I'm utterly crushed. Jenny is so amazing and ran such an amazing store. I'm sad that one of our favorite designers ever will essentially cease to exist. I honestly don't know how to react to it all. You really do where her stuff **all** the time, and I hope we can find bits & pieces from other designers that will help to at least get us close to some of the unique style she has, but I just don't know if it's possible. :-(

Re: Cynical Agile and Scrum Dictionary - Yuriy Zubarev

stevenhaddox — Fri, 27 Apr 2012 08:25:06 -0000

Wow. No need to get all personal. I <3 Agile (with a passion) and still found this humorous, whether it's intended that way or not. There's definitely things anyone (from both sides of Agile) has encountered. No need to hate on someone on their own blog over something that's not even offensive...

Re: Cynical Agile and Scrum Dictionary - Yuriy Zubarev

stevenhaddox — Fri, 27 Apr 2012 07:02:19 -0000

If agile actually means the above to you, you're doing it wrong. I think we all encounter these, but all of them are overcome with discipline, and... well more discipline. It's not like agile is hard, but it helps to understand it (e.g. read The Agile Samurai).

All in all a hilarious post for either side. Just be wary of letting your team become the above if you're going to actually practice agile ;)

Re: Remote Pairing with SSH, tmux, and vim - { Steven Haddox's Blog }

stevenhaddox — Thu, 12 Apr 2012 00:17:35 -0000

This is awesome! I know you mentioned it earlier, but I'd already gone and done the above so it wasn't a big deal. I also like my pair being able to have control over creating a joint development environment instead of being forced to use my bundles, settings, etc. Pros and cons to each for sure.

Also, I just added an update that includes a link to Evan Light's post with some more interesting tips as well.

Re: katie.cupcake: Some Days

stevenhaddox — Wed, 04 Apr 2012 17:47:36 -0000

Awww... I'm almost in tears. I love and miss you guys so much! Hopefully things will get easier in the near future... Thanks for the lovely post Katie!