Twice recently I have heard Mark Mathewson (MVP for International and Small Business Tech at Capital One, where I work) give a talk in his capacity as executive responsible for inspiring our diversity programs within Tech. I have also heard the subject raised by Jenn Flynn who runs the Small …
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Posted Fri 12 April 2019
by mcherm
in articles
My employer now uses gmail for our company email (and it's what I
use at home also) so I would like "mailto:" links to work with
Gmail. Unfortunately, all the normal processes for making Chrome
use Gmail for such links failed for me. I
went
digging and found a solution …
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Posted Mon 07 January 2019
by mcherm
in Technology
I've had a wonderful idea for a business. Each of my users is
invited to send me things in the mail things like pictures of their
kids or notes about what they are doing. I then scan in these
notes and pictures, print out everyone's updates in a big paper …
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Posted Sun 04 November 2018
by mcherm
in Law
Part 4 of a 4-part essay
In the first 4 parts of this essay, we covered how company culture affects the
solutions people choose, that Capital One excells at innovation but is poor at
reuse, and that reuse is important. Bringing this together, I think we need to
change the …
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Posted Thu 31 May 2018
by mcherm
in Software Development
Part 3 of a 4-part essay
In the previous
essay in this series I pointed out that Capital One is good good at innovation,
but isn't particularly good at reuse... so what? Everyone has strengths and
weaknesses, maybe this isn't such a big deal! If the cost of being good …
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Posted Wed 30 May 2018
by mcherm
in Software Development