Estimation Deck is now available in the App Store
Estimation Deck is now back in the App Store. Estimation Deck saves you from carrying around a deck of cards for your next Agile estimation session. Estimation Deck provides a set of fibonacci numbers...
View ArticleCheckbox is now available in the App Store
Checkbox has been unleashed upon the masses and is now ready for sale in the App Store. Checkbox allows you to take a photo of your task list, add checkboxes to the photo, and track the tasks that you...
View ArticleFast NTLM authentication proxy with tunneling
If you are using Linux behind a corporate firewall that only supports Windows, and the Windows proxy authentication is causing you pain, then I suggest installing and using CNTLM. The problem I was...
View ArticleHTML5 for Managers
What is new in HTML5? HTML5 is a “living standard” that embraces the constantly changing and evolving nature of the web. HTML5 introduces a number of new elements for semantic structure, multimedia,...
View ArticleJoyent conned me with lifetime hosting deal
Update: Joyent comes good with lifetime hosting – Long live TextDrive! I was disappointed to have received the below email in my inbox from Joyent this morning. I feel as though I was conned twice when...
View ArticleJoyent comes good with lifetime hosting – Long live TextDrive!
A lot has happened in the last two weeks, and the below message from Dean Allen was the outcome I was looking for after I was notified of the End of Life notice I had received earlier this month. It...
View ArticleSetting up VMWare shared folders on Ubuntu guest
For some reason Ubuntu 12.04 is unable to complete the VMware tools automatically. I discovered this by checking if the hgfs module was loaded using the following command. $ lsmod | grep vmhgfs And got...
View ArticleRunning on TextDrive
Just moved my blog to TextDrive. It didn’t take long to migrate from a legacy Joyent shared hosting box to TextDrive, especially given that TextDrive is built on Joyent’s high-performance cloud...
View ArticleWorking at Covata
I have recently taken on the role of product manager at Covata, a start up company that is developing a suite of products that have a unique approach to protecting data. At the core of our product...
View ArticleProtect your Play! application with the CSRF filter
Play! 2.1 introduces a new filters API and Cross Site Request Forgery (CSRF) protection. The CSRF filter is not well documented and it took a while to work out how to enable it in my Play!...
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