Category – Resources
46 posts tagged with "Resources" (See all categories)

PPop OS Fix Endless Login Loop

05/12/20191 Min Read — In Resources, Ops, Development

Pop!OS recently updated to 19.04, after upgrading I found that I was unable to login to my desktop. This is what I did to get out of the issue. After much research I found that there are many…

SSwapped to Gatsby, Goodbye Wordpress

05/02/20191 Min Read — In Development, Resources

Ditching my old site This blog is more of a personal career journal and work blog, so it makes sense to keep it in my personal site, instead of my biz site. I've also had to deal with more than enough…

RRequired Reading: Ruined By Design

04/09/20191 Min Read — In Career, Resources

I pre-ordered this the moment I heard about it. From what I could tell it was the logical next step after Papanek's "Design for the Real World" . It is worth your time and a quick read. It's…

MMarch 2019 Link Dump

03/31/20192 Min Read — In Office, Resources

I really do spam links a lot. I feel like this month slowed down from some previous months . These are in no particular order. seattle js meetp :taco: :woman-shrugging: https://www.meetup.com…

AAwesome Uses

03/18/20191 Min Read — In Career, Resources, Development

This magically appeared in my GitHub feed because I follow Kent C Dodds and saw his fork activity. I am a big fan of Awesome lists , snooping on other people's set ups and Wes Bos so this is…

GGraph QLub

02/12/20191 Min Read — In Career, Office, Resources, Development

My team is doin' this free GraphQL online bootcamp together and levelin' up en masse. Like anything free, buyer beware, but it's super fun so far and my team self organized and even did the homework…

JJanuary 2019 Link Dump

01/31/20192 Min Read — In Career, Office, Resources, Security, Testing

Wrap up of January links I thought were interesting that I posted to my team throughout January. Testing, Quality, Ops, Sec :foxwave: https://twitter.com/AlexanderOnTest/status/108096399508181401…

22018 Learning Slack Channel Link Dump

12/28/20182 Min Read — In Office, Resources

Much like my #softwaretesting channel contributions, I also spam a larger team-wide channel dubbed "LearnChan". This is 2018's output. https://hackernoon.com/im-harvesting-credit-card-numbers-and…

RRefactoring UI

12/14/20181 Min Read — In Career, Resources, Development

Today I grabbed the much anticipated Refactoring UI: Book by Adam Wathan and Steve Schoger . I follow both of them on Twitter but really became interested in the project after watching a…

CCypress Quick Tip: Requests

09/10/20181 Min Read — In Resources, Testing, Development

The classic use case for making direct requests to your backend outside of your front end application, is to create, login and seed the local browser with user creds so you can cleanly run whatever…

PPM Template: RACI

07/18/20181 Min Read — In Project Management, Resources

Why You Need This Responsible, Accountable, Consulted, Informed. This is a very high level RACI sheet to log the basics of who's on point for what. They can get much more complicated but it's good at…

PPM Template: Project Brief

06/21/20181 Min Read — In Project Management, Resources

Why You Need This A project brief can be a useful guidepost when planning and collaborating on a project. Whether you need a brief or not is up to you. These tend to be more important for projects…

CCypress Quick Tip: Scripts

05/22/20181 Min Read — In Resources, Testing, Development

In your package.json the simplest setup is running your testrunner for day to day development and running your tests on the commandline, perhaps for continuous integration. This could be as simple…

PPM Template: PMO RACI

05/07/20181 Min Read — In Project Management, Resources

Why You Need This Why does your PM need it's own RACI? Because our work can be invisible when done well. Your work deserves to be accounted for in the project and without this level of breakdown, your…

PPM Template: Decision Log

04/28/20181 Min Read — In Project Management, Resources

Why You Need This A decision log serves a few purposes. Where I find it to be most valuable is as a gift to your future self or perhaps other project spelunkers. Over the course of a project there…

PPM Template: WCAG Audit

03/28/20181 Min Read — In Project Management, Resources

Why You Need This You should pay a professional to do accessibility auditing, especially if they are a member of a marginalized group due to aspects of their abilities. But we can't always unlock that…

PPM Template: Budget

03/10/20181 Min Read — In Project Management, Resources

Why You Need This These templates were made in an agency context and might make zero sense for your use case. They are skeletons and do not have fancy calculations everywhere. But! They may prove…

CCypress Quick Tip: Skip and Only

03/04/20181 Min Read — In Resources, Testing, Development

In your day to day use of Cypress, especially using it for day to day development, you will want to focus on your signal from the noise that a constant testrunner can evoke. Only the Lonely When you…

PPM Template: Scope Log

02/14/20181 Min Read — In Project Management, Resources

Why You Need This Of course you defined scope already. And of course you called out what's definitely not in scope. But that's just not how software works. Especially in an agency context. Your scope…

PPM Template: Meeting Cadence

01/20/20181 Min Read — In Project Management, Resources

Why You Need This You need a meetings and communication plan with a known and predictable schedule. These moments are the heartbeat of the project. The plan will also help onboard new team members. If…

PPM Template: Estimates

12/14/20171 Min Read — In Project Management, Resources

Why You Need This Your project estimates will need to be defensible both internally and externally. In your project planning you should have these phases mapped out with at least a back-of-the…

CCypress Quick Tip: Adding Faker

11/30/20171 Min Read — In Resources, Testing, Development

A lot of your testing will be done with mocks, fakes, stubs and fixtures of some sort. Sometimes in a test you don't want flat data, but something dynamic for each run. You can use tools to create…

CCypress Quick Tip: Debugging

11/15/20171 Min Read — In Resources, Testing, Development

I will admit, I don't really know JavaScript too well. I am not a webdev whiz but I do a fair amount of general debugging and sometimes outright stepping through a debugger to diagnose a problem. Did…

DDarknet Diaries

10/15/20171 Min Read — In Security, Resources

What if This American Life was about hackers? This new podcast is kinda like that! Check out Darknet Diaries

CCypress Quick Tip: Configs

10/12/20171 Min Read — In Resources, Testing, Development

One of the first things you will want to do when spinning up Cypress in your project is setting up your configs. You can get pretty far without it and they come with sensible defaults. After you…

PPM Template: Charter

10/01/20171 Min Read — In Project Management, Resources

Why You Need This A charter can be one of the most useful tools in a project managers toolbox. The scope, vision and clarity this document provides should last the entire project through and should…

CCypress Quick Tip: Waits

08/12/20171 Min Read — In Resources, Testing, Development

One thing you will want to do very often when testing a React or Vue UI is waiting for the view to do something. The big use case here is waiting for an API response so that your UI can display the…

PPM Template: QA & Test Coverage

06/15/20171 Min Read — In Project Management, Resources

Why You Need This You need a quality and testing plan for your projects. This one is just a scaffold and not heavyweight at all. It's enough to get you going but not enough to take you there. I have…

PPM Template: Post Mortem/Retro

04/15/20171 Min Read — In Project Management, Resources

Why You Need This Your using a continuous improvement methodolgy somewhere in your process. This will naturally include moments to review and reflect on the status quo. Use these questions to help…

CCypress Quick Tip: Fixtures

04/11/20171 Min Read — In Resources, Testing, Development

Having worked for agencies, studios, consultancies for years one thing that I've managed to live through time and time again is being on a greenfield app project that depended on a API/backend that…

PPM: The Post Ship Follow Up

04/10/20171 Min Read — In Project Management, Resources

Begin with the end in mind, as they say. Your client services team should have a plan for what happens after the boat is in the water. You don't want to just disappear on your client. It's a…

PPM Template: Browsers

01/20/20171 Min Read — In Project Management, Resources

Why You Need This These templates are for logging your browser support for a project. Your client will either know offhand what they want and can fill it in themselves. If they really know what they…

RRequired Reading: Design for the Real World

05/22/20141 Min Read — In Career, Resources

Papanek's "Design for the Real World" I just finished this book and now I want every designer, developer, tester, project manager, and especially QA/testers to read this. This should be the required…

MMore Handy Git Stuff

02/22/20141 Min Read — In Ops, Resources

Recently I shared some scripts under Git Image Merge Conflict Tool and Quick and Dirty CI/CD Git Based Release Notes but I also have some git one liners that I use constantly that you may find…

GGit Image Merge Conflict Tool

01/18/20131 Min Read — In Career, Resources, Testing

You probably won't ever need to create dozens of git repositories that have conflicted image files to diff and resolve, ( WINK ), but if you ever do, I got you covered: