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Use case: You need to deploy but a migration isn't ready to run yet - maybe there's too much database load.

Use a system, not scraps of paper or sticky notes.

“When doing project management, you can’t ensure everything goes smoothly, only the things you focus on.”

Among the most powerful of team building and communication tools a leader can have is the retrospective (known in some circles as “postmortem” or “root cause analysis”).

When picking who you’re going to go into the fray with...

Note: This was written shortly after GiveCamp.

Recently, I read an article titled Time for Makefiles to Make a Comeback which reminded me of a fantastic UNIX tool that far too many people view as being scary.

What are some career mistakes you've made or observed in others?

For the past 2 weeks, I’ve been experimenting with the idea of time blocking my day, and am happy to say that for the most part, it works.

The 3rd factor of a 12 factor app is configuration stored in the environment.

Recently at my job, one of the other software developers was talking about how they had a trick where you’d land in a vim session on every login.

Something that I hear from many people is “I don’t have good ideas”.

Sometimes, when you're building a Ruby on Rails API with Serializers, you want to pass a variable into the serializer from the controller - in this example, we want to pass in the search query.

Here’s a conundrum.

We often use the word “emotional” as if it’s a bad word, especially in the workplace.