Part 2 of a 4-part essay
For the past several years I have worked at Capital One, which is one of the
larger financial institutions in the US. As an organization, it lies somewhere
between being a bank and being a tech company. And Capital One is really good at …
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Posted Tue 29 May 2018
by mcherm
in Software Development
Part 1 of a 4-part essay
Company culture is an interesting thing. Especially in the world of technology
companies, everyone seems to agree that it is a very important thing, few seem
to know how to create or influence it. Some researchers like Edgar Schein have
attempted
to quantify it …
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Posted Mon 28 May 2018
by mcherm
in Software Development
Just a note for myself for the NEXT time this happens.
If Confluence starts returning an error saying
"400 Bad Request - Request Header Or Cookie Too Large" then the cause is
that something has gotten borked with the cookie that the browser has for Confluence.
The fix is to delete …
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Posted Mon 09 April 2018
by mcherm
in Programming
Image Search by License
Question: So I want to make a logo for my friend's company. Am I allowed
to use cliparts from google to add or make the logo? Or do I have to make
everything from scratch?
My Answer: There are a few different laws you might have …
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Posted Tue 13 February 2018
by mcherm
in Law
Depending on Someone Else's Code
We had an interesting problem arise the other day, a problem about code dependency.
Our problem was in no way unique, so it seemed worthwhile to write out the problem
and our proposed solution.
The problem
The core of the problem is that we need …
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Posted Sun 28 January 2018
by mcherm
in Programming