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10 Characteristics of Highly Successful People

Note: This is a repost of https://motivationgrid.com/characteristics-of-highly-successful-people/ . Passion For What They Do To perform consistently at a high level you will need high levels of energy. Amateurs resort to quick fixes such as caffeine to get them through the day. Successful people know that passion is the

Kudu how I loath the

So, now that we have a brain what shall we do? Every time my wife Megan asks me: What do you want to do today? I respond Take over the world. So let's use Kudu to take over Azure's world. We know how to use Hubot to respond to simple

hubot

Adding a brain to Hubot

In Hacking Hubot - Intro I walked through my plan to teach Hubot how to push builds to Azure. @hubot build deploy nicks-dev Voila! Hubot would connect to Kudu's api and a build would be started. Before we implemented that command we wanted to be able to set aliases for

hubot

Hacking Hubot - Intro

What is Hubot GitHub, Inc., wrote the first version of Hubot to automate our company chat room. Hubot knew how to deploy the site, automate a lot of tasks, and be a source of fun in the company. Eventually he grew to become a formidable force in GitHub. Hubot on

A Tale of Two Worlds

Strengths finder informed me a while ago that I have the Individualization strength. Your Individualization theme leads you to be intrigued by the unique qualities of each person. You are impatient with generalizations or "types" because you don't want to obscure what is special and distinct about each

software principles

Life without a methodology

Throw away everything you know about how your current software process works. Seriously. Throw it all away and I promise you will be ok. Well, maybe. Fifteen years ago a new way of building software was introduced to the world: We are uncovering better ways of developing software by doing

design

My take on Y.A.G.N.I.

Heard of Y.A.G.N.I. (You aren't gonna need it)? Do the simplest thing that could possibly work. This concept can be a dangerous one to introduce to junior developers. This does not mean you just code the first thing that you can get working. You always need

Due Diligence

We are all moving toward an OpenSource world. Whether we like it or not we are becoming dependent on <bower|package>.json files. Some have learned, others are waiting to get burned by the <library>: "*' . It's happened to most "node/bower" dependents.

Your code is speaking to me...

Hopefully this blog stays at a "micro" level. I want to keep this short and sweet. This morning I came across this code (tried to keep is as pure as when I found it): Model = $resource('/api/something'); Model.query.$promise.then(function (data) { $scope.data = data;

Seiri, Seiton, Seiso, Seiketsu, and Shutsuke

I like most of you can't pronounce, spell, or remember any of the words above. I don't expect you to get your index cards out and memorize them. Too many people try to get better at coding by simply reading a blog. I challenge you to read this, and then

git

GIT it like a rockstar....

I don't know about you, but I suffer from OCD - Over Committing Disorder Assumptions: You care about git history. If you dont you might as well just close the laptop now. You know how to branch and are working on a feature branch. You dont have to be but

With great power comes great responsibility...

A colleague and I often get in debates about why: [new JS framework] > [ --new JS framework]. We get all spun out on things like shadow dom and reactivity. We pontificate about software failures and question if the project would have succeeded if we would have used <new JS

All I want to do is have some fun...

All developers want to just be able to "double click" an index.html page to test it. Its never that easy... I'm sure a lot of people reading this have seen this error: I love SEO so let me type out what the image says: XMLHttpRequest cannot load