Getting Started with AWS Device Farm and Python Appium
AWS Device Farm is a service for running mobile app integration tests against a suite of physical devices. The Amazon documentation is exhaustive, and they s...
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Long Term Software Estimates
False scheduling to match a patron’s desired date is more common in our discipline than elsewhere in engineering because it is VERY DIFFICULT to make a vi...
Appium + React Native Quickstart
Appium is a great framework for automated functional testing of mobile apps. But it’s very general purpose, meaning that there is relatively little documenta...
React Native Multiple Release Variants
By default, React Native gives you a debug variant and a release variant. In debug mode, the app connects to a running packager service, and enables various ...
Deploying React Native apps with Buddy Build
Buddy Build is a great tool for getting your app out to physical devices, whether that is during development, or in production. Their tool is fairly agnostic...
Tiger Team Survival Guide
A tiger team is a diversified group of experts brought together for a single project, need, or event. They are usually assigned to investigate, solve, bui...
Cross Functional Scrum Teams
Teams are also cross-functional; Team members must have all of the skills necessary to create an increment of work. - Scrum Guide
PyGithub Quickstart Examples
PyGithub is the most popular GitHub API SDK for Python. Their documentation is very light on examples. They seem to think this is fine. Prime candidate for t...
Management 101
Coming off some annual management training, I realize that I need to write some of these learnings down, in order to actually internalize them. This is mostl...
SQLAlchemy - Storing Application Version Strings
One example of when you might need to store application version numbers in your database is when you’re tracking which users have which versions of a mobile ...