Hello! I am preparing a talk on using git for a new dev team and wanted to crowdsource some content. If you're a developer or use git, could you take a quick survey for me? Click below Quick Git Survey Thank you so much! And if you're new to git, check out these two posts:... Continue Reading →
Publishing your new blog post
This is the last part of a mini-series on blogging. I suggest you check out Should You Even Blog and How to write a blog post. You're a writer now! Congrats! Now, you need a place to hold your genius, your thought leadership, your ramblings, your content, whatever it is. There are a slew of... Continue Reading →
Challenge #2 – Staying focused with a tomato
Here we go with challenge 2 of our little coding challenge! What's with the tomato? Well, this challenge was to make a pomodoro timer, check this out: Our second challenge gets more tangy! We'll be building a Pomodoro timer. To provide some background, the Pomodoro Technique is a time management method developed by Francesco Cirillo in... Continue Reading →
Challenge #1 – A Calculator, a RESTful man, and a Springy Boot walk into a bar…
Ha, that's all I got. As I mentioned earlier, I'm going through a fun little coding challenge with my team at Slalom. Our first challenge is to create a calculator. Since I'm learning Spring Boot and specifically creating REST APIs, I get to create this calculator as an API... But first, the requirements, here's what... Continue Reading →
Moving from Trello to Things
In my continual quest for finding a reasonable task management tool, I've stopped my quest at Things. In a previous post, I shared I moved from ToDo to Trello. I didn't like Trello, wasn't for me, but I know it works for so many, so I thought I'd be nice and cover migrating from ToDo... Continue Reading →
Stepping up your Git game
Git is a wonderful tool for managing your code. Many code repositories, like GitHub (obvi), BitBucket, Azure DevOps, and others, support git. We covered the basics of git in this post, review that before starting here. Fundamentally, knowing how to do the routine tasks of pull, push, commit, etc. is all you really need to... Continue Reading →
Getting started with Git
What is Git? The elevator pitch: Git is a repository for code and provides versioning with a capability to easily share and collaborate with others Maybe a little too simple, but at its core, that's what git is about. It provides developers a place to store their code with version control so that they can... Continue Reading →
My First Easter Egg: The Upside Down from Stranger Things
I've been a developer for 20 years and I've never made an easter egg. I finally have, in tribute to Netflix show Stranger Things. This is a super simple script, throw it into your app and then call window.upsideDown(). I set this up so that when a user was searching for the phrase Stranger Things... Continue Reading →
SharePoint Script: Format the List Form Field
This is a little script that works on classic SharePoint lists (modern lists, you should really use PowerApps to customize it). It'll allow you to format a field row, label or the cell the value is in. Similar to: Yes, it's ugly, but I wanted to highlight it plainly: formatRow - allows you to format... Continue Reading →
Customizing SharePoint’s Modern Lists’ Forms
Ya know that awesome new interface we get in Office 365 called Modern Lists? Ya know how that's not editable, or customizable, or extensible? Well, ya know it right! It's not. However... Above is a typical modern list, in all of it's glory. Pretty right? But I want to add some of my own code... Continue Reading →