monitoring PromCon 2018 highlights I just finished watching the [recorded] live streams from PromCon 2018. There are some really exciting things under development in the Prometheus ecosystem. This is not an exhaustive review. . . but I wanted to highlight a few presentations: Grafana Explorer UI!The Grafana team is
blog Ghost 2.x ! Upgrading from Ubuntu 12.x and Ghost 0.5.0, to Ghost 2.x and a newer Ubuntu is no joke. I had a few false starts, and ended up mostly starting fresh. Luckily it looks like the upgrade story of Ghost itself has
software delivery Constraints, Chunking, and Confidence Over the weekend, I learned a new tech, and wrote a simple game that runs in a web browser. I used cocos2d-x. In the past, I had done plenty of cocos2d-iphone/swift which has some API similarities. However, with cocos2d-x you code in c+
teams Great Software Teams IMHO As I am starting to look for my next opportunity, I have been chatting with people and thinking a lot about what makes a great team, because, hey call me crazy, but I want to work on a great team! Aside, a projection.A
iOS Xcode Behaviors for fun and profit Xcode has some great features that can easily slip by you. Recently I took the time to really take advantage of Xcode Behaviors. Xcode Behaviors allow you to set up a user-defined sequence of events that should happen in reaction to various system events
swift Swift conciseness through functional programming and sleep (Part 2) I wrote a post earlier which outlined the thought process I went through while slimming down some code in the KeySmash toy project. Make sure you read Part 1 first. I received several great pieces of feedback about that blog post which inspired some
swift Swift conciseness through operators, extensions, and unnamed arguments (Part 1) In a toy project, I had the need to intercept all external keyboard keypresses. Something I am always trying to keep a critical eye on when coding in swift is 'Have I made this as concise as possible without sacrificing readability in the name
iOS Evolving Swift When people ask me what I think of the swift programming language, the main thing I think of is hope. For so long, Apple has been on a kind of island in regards to advances in programming languages. It's the nature of something closed
startup Looking forward Starting a business is insanely hard work and you invest a lot of yourself into it. At Pi'ikea Street, my co-founder and I created and released 7 quality iOS apps. I am still amazed and sometimes in disbelief at all the awards, featuring, and