Category: General
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Remote Work
While Spark::red has offices, we are primarily a distributed team, and as we continue to grow more and more of our team will be geographically separated from one another. So the topic of remote working and distributed teams is an important one for us, and one I’m personally invested in. I feel that there are […]
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Jira to OmniFocus Integration
At Spark::red we use Jira extensively for internal projects and tasks, for alerts and issues, and for handling client support requests. It’s a great tool. I also use OmniFocus for other types of tasks: personal, errands, write an email to so-and-so, create a proposal, etc… What that’s left me with is two separate to-do lists, […]
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Tools and Processes for Work
For the background on this, please read my first post – Tools and Processes While my work includes a lot of email, con-calls, proposals and contracts, the relevant tools and processes are covered in the previous post. Here I’m going to focus on the technical aspects of my work: writing code, managing servers, and troubleshooting […]
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Tools and Processes
I’ve been working with computers since I was a kid. The longer I’ve been using technology on a day to day basis, the more integral to my daily life it has become. Laptops, cell phones, tablets, the internet, web applications, the cloud. I am quite reliant on tech at this point, my I use a […]
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Installing GitLab on RedHat Enterprise 5 RHEL 5
GitLab is a free (they also have a paid enterprise version) and open source software package to make managing a Git server easier. It provides a nice web admin, detailed user and group permissions, and much more. I looked at gitolite however I was unable to get it working correctly after several frustrating days, and […]
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Working from the Beach part 5 Wrap Up
I’ve returned from Mexico after working there for a month. As you can tell, I didn’t keep up with the blog writing during the second half of my stay, but I wanted to write a bit of a wrap up about my first attempt at working from an exotic locale. I settled into a generally […]