I am building a system to store records about businesses (within the US). As with most systems these days, it will be highly distributed: it runs in three different data centers, each running multiple machines each of which runs numerous threads. One of the things that this distributed system needs …
Posted Sun 15 September 2019 by mcherm in Programming
Question: Do you feel that daily standups add value?
Only a couple of times in my life have I been involved in a project where a single highly-motivated developer worked independently on a project without a need to communicate about changing requirements, share development and code-review effort with others, or …
Posted Tue 16 April 2019 by mcherm in Software Development
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 …
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 …
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 …