Today I’m going to write about a topic that I and almost every single human have been exposed to, either personally or through friends and family who have been affected — that of mental illness. But more specifically, insight in those who suffer from a mental health condition, as well as insight within the general populace.
Let’s begin by exploring insight specifically. Insight is the capacity to develop an accurate and deep understanding of someone or something. A huge part of insight is awareness. …
Today I’m going to write about the benefits of Scrum over Kan ban.
Often, when moving to an agile process or formulating a process for a new development team, the choice comes down to one of these two agile methods.
Kan ban is more of a continuous stream of work, where the people actioning the tasks or stories pick one story at a time up from the “Not Started” bucket and move it to “In Progress”. …
In this article I’m going to explain how to prepare your product vision.
To begin, we’re going to fill in the Product Vision Board that Roman Pichler created:
Welcome to part two of my series on pfSense at the Edge of Your Private Cloud. If you haven’t read the first post, on setting up your firewall and configuring static leases — then you should read it first here.
Once you have setup your firewall and have configured your static leases — the next step that you should take is configuring your DNS records and your SSL certificates.
Setting Up CloudFlare
I use, and highly recommend, the free CloudFlare plan for managing all of your DNS records. Sign up for an account here and then add all of your…
Overview & Setup
So for those who don’t know — I have setup and am running a private cloud at home. On which I host a number of websites and services that I use every day (such as a CRM system, the Atlassian Suite Incl. Confluence & JIRA, Jenkins for CI/CD, GitLab for source control, Zimbra for my mail server / groupware and many more).
My private cloud has gone through many iterations — initially beginning with a Gigabyte BRIX small form-factor PC running Docker with all of my services containerised on this system, and has progressed to my running…
This is a quick post about a thought model that I have come up with — that of Problem Strings.
Entrepreneurs and people in product are often taught not to focus on the idea / the how — or the solution, but rather to focus on the problem (the why). To discover the root problem its often helpful to find out what gap your solution is filling in a market. And then to ask “why” as many times as possible until you get to the root cause / problem. …
There are a huge number of re-usable business models out there. From marketplaces to auction houses, eCommerce stores to Content Platforms and so many more.
The business model I am going to describe within this post is “Democratisation of [x]”.
It is a fact that many services that exist in the world are out of reach of the average person, or may severely harm their financial position in order to be accessed.
Examples are healthcare in the USA (with the ridiculously high costs), law/justice (which also has very high costs to access) and launching a startup. There are often times…
One of the side projects that I’ve been working on recently is an Identity/IAM solution. I started by integrating oAuth in to it, and then began researching how to integrate SAML in to it for enterprise SSO.
The OASIS specifications for SAML are quite comprehensive and cover the schema of login and logout requests and responses. But they don’t delve in to how the SAML XML is encoded and decoded. And the majority of other websites out there that talk about SAML do so from a marketing perspective.
In fact it was quite difficult to find out how to encode…
For those in tech — the concept of a “full stack developer” is probably one that you’re well aware of.
In software engineering, systems are usually divided in to a number of tiers. In one particular pattern (MVC), these tiers are the Model (which abstracts a repository of data), the View (which represents what the user sees on the screen — ie; the user interface) and the Controller (which is the entry point for all incoming requests).
Traditionally, software engineers have been primarily backend-focussed (writing business logic and other non-customer-facing code) or frontend-focussed (writing code for the user interface —…
Ideas can become viral.
Cultures around the world are a culmination of these viral ideas — some of which have originated within each cultural group, and others that have originated from other cultural groups.
As cultures develop and evolve — their belief systems can become quite complex, with many of their beliefs being stacks of beliefs from neighbouring cultures and afar.
The aboriginal’s culture within Australia is, on the other hand, quite unique. In that it had effectively been unadulterated by the belief systems of other cultures for a substantial period of time (tens of thousands of years).
One could…
