Just Another Technology Guy

How many times have you been working on a platform and recognized the need for some underlying technology that ties together several dispara...

When I first started in the software industry I believed that the measure of success for any project was whether or not it shipped anywhere....

I grew up in the Washington D.C. area. I grew up a Redskins fan (whose name I DO believe should be changed). That also meant I grew up hatin...

So far in this Agile Development series I've: Made the case for Scrum Defined who and what a sprint team is Walked through the ana...

In my previous post in this Agile Development series I detailed the typical workflow for planning a sprint. In this post I will outline the ...

In my previous post in this Agile Development series I walked you through the daily stand-up. In this post I'll go outline the typical w...

In my previous post in this Agile Development series I explained two ways to determine sprint duration. In this post I'll go into detail...

In my previous post in this Agile Development series I explained the anatomy of a sprint in terms of the three different sprint phases. In t...

In my previous post in the Agile Development series I walked through the makeup of a sprint team. I explained the roles of Product, Dev, Q...

Sprints are the way that Scrum teams iterate over software. The goal of a sprint is to produce a working set of software that is potentiall...

Over the last two decades the internet has become ubiquitous in our lives. The speed of our internet connections and performance of our com...

Software development is a craft that requires practice, hard work and dedication. It's a craft that involves many edge cases and uninte...

Here's a general checklist of the type of tests that you can use to ensure that you're testing your software properly before you shi...

Refactoring software is a crucial part of extending the life of software. Refactoring contributes to enhancing the maintainability of the so...

In this series on software estimation I defined an accurate estimate as something that will: Give you an understanding of risk and unknown...

In this series on software estimation I defined an accurate estimate as something that will: Give you an understanding of risk and unknown...

In my last post Software Estimate: What you're doing wrong I explained why people tend to create inaccurate software estimates. In this...

During the beginning of my career as a software development engineer one of things that I dreaded the most was the beginning of any project ...

In the last   few   posts I've shown you have to add a Web View to your Android application. Web View's are useful for showing exte...

In my previous post,  Android WebView: Interacting with the Web Page from Java , I showed you how to call javascript functions from your nat...