Members Only Git Git Wars: Perils of One Rogue Developer A recent issue resulted with a repository in a bad state. In this article I cover what happened, how I resolved the issue, and some thoughts on how to prevent it in the future.
Members Only Screwups Ten Seconds, Identity, and 20% Memory Loss: Why You Need Backups How much is 20% of your memories worth?
Members Only Non-Technical Patience, Outrage Culture, and Mr. Berger's Class Patience is key. Outrage is everywhere.
Members Only Screwups Don't Stop Moving, Especially When You Screw Up Just keep moving. Even, especially, when you screw up. Technology won't wait.
Members Only Management Anti-Pattern Bikeshedding Bikeshedding happens when people spend too much time arguing over trivial things. The solution is to force the leader to make a decision, and damn the torpedoes.
Members Only Stories Confessions of a "Well, Actually..." Guy It was almost imperceptible. A slight shift in her gaze, a miniscule shake of her head, a flash behind her eyes. She knew, and then I understood. I had done it again.
Members Only Guided Tours Less-Common C# Keywords - A Guided Tour Good morning everyone! Welcome to the Less-Common C# Keywords Tour here at Exception Not Found! My name is Reggie and I'll be your tour guide today. For those of you
Members Only Bug Hunt Solving the Stupid Bug A few weeks back I wrote about a very unusual bug that returned 500 errors for routes that should have been valid. Recently my team and I, to our great
Members Only Bug Hunt A Stupid Bug and a Plea for Help UPDATE (17 May 2017): We've fixed the stupid bug described in this post! Check it out! Bug hunts can take on many forms. Some are simple cleanup jobs, some take
Members Only Stories "I Don't Trust Anything That We Didn't Build" The problems started small, as they often do. But as we've seen many times before, lots of small problems in quick succession tend to make one big problem. In this
Members Only Stories How Do You Fix An Impossible Bug? Within the span of an hour, it had all gone to hell. The first deployment went rather smoothly. It was a fix to an existing web service, and went out
Members Only Original Fiction The BugCatcher Chronicles #2 - Pine Hills Elena The flickering streetlamp fought valiantly, but in the end Elena was victorious once again. The green mantis/cricket hybrid that had been resisting her invocations finally gave up the
Members Only Stories My Obviously Perfect Code: An Attention-Seeking Post Title Bombastic opening statement about the strength of the glorious code you're about to read. Further explanation that clearly you haven't seen anything as good as this yet. Unimportant and overlong
Members Only Original Fiction The BugCatcher Chronicles #1 - Jamestown Avenue Danny Shadows flank me as I march down Jamestown Avenue toward the short, squat building in the distance. The sun's last few rays are off in the distance, casting a
Members Only Stories Diary of a Death March: Terry's Story June 2nd It went through! After all the effort the three of us put into this deal, the company we have been trying to purchase for more than a year
