Are Swimlanes Evil?
Betteridge would say “no”. I would say “maybe”. However you feel about swimlanes, I believe they can be used for good in spite of the Prioritisation Problem.
RICE scoring in Aha! for prioritisation
Working out what to build next with the tried-and-tested quantitative method of RICE Prioritisation with Aha! Product Management scoring.
How to prioritise your way out of releasing anything
Imagine never fixing that bug, never releasing that feature and never improving your onboarding experience — all you have to do is prioritise!
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Google Maps to Garmin
Plot a course on Google Maps, import it to Garmin Connect and copy to your Garmin Bike Computer (e.g. Edge 25) — here’s the easiest way I’ve found!
Excel: Split full names into given and family names
Most attempts to split a full name into first/last split by the first space but this fails when people also have middle names. Here’s how to do it properly.
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Should everyone learn to code?
The media seems to think that everyone should learn to code, but I strongly disagree and believe we should look at the bigger picture.
Dependency Injection explained in plain English
Dependency Injection (DI) is a simple concept that’s often explained in complicated terms. It’s not rocket surgery, just giving objects to other objects!
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Ads on tech blogs
A few months ago I started showing ads on my blog and the results were exactly as I expected — ads on tech blogs just don’t work!
Filename Regular Expression
Checks that a string is valid on Windows (NTFS), Mac (HFS+) and most Linux distros as a file/folder name as well as part of a URI without encoding.
Reset Outlook
Locked-out of Outlook because you tried to add an account thrice and it gave up on you? Annoying, but easy to fix. Here’s how!