Category: general

  • Clover and Wikitree

    Good news this week. Our purchase of Clover was approved and we will have our license keys in a matter of days. As of tomorrow it is going into our build and Cobertura is getting ripped out. You may recall I previously wrote about my issues with Cobertura. One problem was the latest version at…

  • Spam Comments

    My blog must be getting noticed by the bots. When I first started writing I had more posts than attempted spam comments. Then for a while I was at parity. I would write something new and I would see another spamy comment in the quarantine area. Now they are starting to kick into overdrive and…

  • Project Estimation

    The thing I dislike most in software development is when they ask me to estimate how long a given project will take. I am about to start a new project so of course the first thing that is asked for is to do some research and try to figure out what the high level tasks…

  • Calling all Dr Who fans

    For all the other Dr Who fans that might come across this I am taking a Massively Open Online Course about the show that starts in a week. If you are interesting in the show you should join me. You can sign up here. A link to the Facebook page is here.

  • Themes for 2015

    As my Christmas vacation draws to a close I am starting to think of themes for 2015. Why themes and not goals or resolutions? Well I think resolutions are sort of setting yourself up for failure and goals are very rigid so I am going with more general themes. Obviously the first theme I am…

  • Bulletproof Coffee

    I have been hearing a lot of talk about Bulletproof Coffee lately. I decided to take the plunge and give it a shot this morning as who doesn’t like a good body hack. I made mine with 1 Tbsp of Kerrygold butter which is the normal butter I eat anyway and 1 TBSP of virgin…

  • Google Apps for Business

    So when I finally resurrected my domain after it being idle for probably about 10 years I was thinking oh I should just roll out google apps to host my email. Back in the day I ran haskovec.com off of a Sparc Server I had running I think Solaris 10 maybe, but I am not…

  • Why a blog now?

    Here I am again messing around with wordpress.  Why?  Well I have been sitting on my domain name forever and not doing anything with it so it is one way to extract some value from it.  Another thing I was considering was that as I have moved up in my software career I find myself…