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During my career, whether as a founder, manager, interviewer or fellow developer, I have had many opportunities to work with software developers as they begin their careers. Often, these aspiring developers ask me for advice on how to become a better software developer. Here are some of the key prin…
Chris Hickman
I have an application that is written in Python and uses the Boto library for making calls to the AWS S3 API in support of a file upload feature. Since being deployed, the code has handled many, many file uploads flawlessly. However, recently I encounted a bizarre bug where a single file would sim…
Chris Hickman
Like many other developer teams, we have standardized on using MacBook Pros for doing our development work. And we use Docker to containerize our (micro)services, making it easy for any team member to run our services locally with the same setup as production. However, using Docker on MacBook Pros…
Chris Hickman
For a while, Node.js was relatively static (and serialized) with its versioning. For example, Node.js remained on version 0.10.X for about 18 months. There wasn't much need to have multiple versions of Node.js installed on the same machine, so installing and maintaining Node.js with your favorite…
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Just as every repo must begin with an initial commit, I suppose so too must a blog. Consider this post my "initial commit". My intent for this blog is to cover all issues related to building not just software, but building companies as well (I've built or helped to build 3 companies so f…
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