johnorourke

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by johnorourke 6y ago
It sounds like you have a specific case of this which caused some problems, what was it?
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by johnorourke 6y ago
Airbase.
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by johnorourke 6y ago
We have not done poorly. Atall. "no-code" is a whole movement now - it's the modern day COBOL. See: * Airbase (imagine circa 1998 Microsoft Access but on the web and with integrations) * Infinityapp.com * Monday.com (easily r
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by johnorourke 6y ago
+1 for jq. It is so useful for mucking about with API responses. I used it to write a bash script that acts as a NAGIOS plugin for spotting changes in our Digital Ocean server and DNS configs - curl to pull from the API, jq to strip out the
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by johnorourke 6y ago
> I think ultimately it comes down to how one implements their GTD system In "Perfect Time-Based Productivity"[1], Francis Wade pulls this idea apart and discusses how you can create a system that is suited to the time-demands
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by johnorourke 6y ago
I do like this. Premature optimisation and over-eager application of DRY / SOLID are problems in software - sure, if you had 20 types of cookie all following the same recipe, abstract it. In his old codinghorror blog, Jeff Atwood sugge
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by johnorourke 6y ago
Business processes have everything to do with architecture. You've said it yourself: "Data comes from some place and then gets processed and displayed or consumed." If you don't factor in who that data comes from and w
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by johnorourke 6y ago
There are better ways than iframing for test/dev - eg. Fiddler, Selenium
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by johnorourke 6y ago
Magento2 discussion on this, including a contributed module to work around it by overriding the built in cookie management: https://github.com/magento/magento2/issues/26377
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by johnorourke 6y ago
"Show me the way to Arm Morello, tralala la la la la la..."
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by johnorourke 6y ago
Whatever you do, don't end up spending 6 months building something and miss out on 6 months of comission-free sales. Anything self-hosted is going to need a fair bit of configuration and looking after - eg. even for the simplest of the
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by johnorourke 6y ago
This is novel and interesting, and could be used on a micro scale (say a group of friends who regularly split dinner bills) or macro. How would you solve the issue of losing data and nodes (through corruption, hardware failure, etc), or pe
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by johnorourke 7y ago
Shout out for simplesamlphp, which confusingly comes as two projects: simplesamlephp/simplesamlphp (a full web application which can implement SP or IdP), and simplesamlephp/saml2, a library of components for parsing and building
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by johnorourke 7y ago
You were probably talking to the wrong person: either through research or chat you need to ensure you are talking to someone who has the authority to pay you. Also hidden in your text is "perhaps even written custom code"... could
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by johnorourke 8y ago
Don't learn sales, learn people. Reading recs: * the social triggers podcasts by Derek Halpern * Start with No by Jim Camp * Demonstrating to Win (super cheesy title but amazing content)
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by johnorourke 8y ago
People have asssumed you're asking "what PM app do you recommend" but you're not - you're asking if engineering managers use one to drive daily activity. Good question :) Every business works differently, so all PM
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by johnorourke 8y ago
Have you done any research before posting? Read up on LEAN manufacturing, Kanban, and how it evolved into the methods you use today that you think are "new" :)
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by johnorourke 9y ago
AREAS -------- Software Quality or Fintech. Don't waste a good team on something like a Kale Smoothie Delivery Service For Beardy Hipsters. Software Quality is a huge, growing issue - we have more and more young/new coders arriv
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by johnorourke 10y ago
I can't believe there are only 3 Cal Newport mentions in the comments so far!
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by johnorourke 10y ago
SMS Backup (Android app) - literally "just works"
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by johnorourke 11y ago
Fantastic, a real piece of history! I had the pleasure of a long video chat with "Cap'n Crunch" a while back... the guy has so many quality stories that I sincerely hope he is busy writing an autobiography. I was a wee lad wh
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by johnorourke 11y ago
Business is hard. Anything of value takes effort and time. Read "The Lean Startup" and "The 4 hour work week". And whatever you do, don't build a website - a website is not a business. Start with eBay, then try some
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by johnorourke 11y ago
Read "Peopleware". Seriously, every page was written with you in mind. Next, if you (as developers naturally do) struggle with the idea of management, structure and order, read "The E-Myth Revisited". Peopleware TL;DR:
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by johnorourke 11y ago
Here's a different thought for you: owning the software, and being able to sell it and make money, are very different. It requires sales and business skills, money to allow for all that, plus time supporting and installing it. What a
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by johnorourke 12y ago
I work on small projects (from $5k to $50k) and have no formal contracts. My thinking is that: - the client can afford more expensive lawyers than I can, so regardless of the truth they would be able to wipe me out - if the client has to re
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by johnorourke 12y ago
Developers could learn from this. I've a few grey hairs, many caused by late nights coding, and I now run a dev team. I wonder if we could really learn from this - for example, looking at the 3rd video in the youtube playlist from the
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by johnorourke 12y ago
Simpsons already did it. Well OK, @sanchothefat already did a similar thing using Processing.js over at http://hascanvas.com - bit old now but he had plenty of interesting user contributions over the years.
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by johnorourke 12y ago
[humor] tl;dr? Cartoon version here: http://brawlinthefamily.keenspot.com/2012/04/11/400-the-hist...
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by johnorourke 13y ago
Me. No-remote, all-round LAMP dev, in Burnley, UK. 30-35K GBP/year. (Burnley is just north of Manchester, UK, and has a small but growing digital sector) I run a small E-commerce focused software agency and have grown organically over
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Amazon reviews "more words required" backfires(google.co.uk)
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