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Recent Posts

  • Using Togglz in a Kotlin Spring Boot Project – Part 1
  • Jira Automation – Populate your Sprint on Creation
  • CPU & RAM data in your OS X Terminal
  • Level-up your Rails Security with SonarQube Generic Issue Format
  • Rails Benchmarking – Cache Store Latency

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  • JavaScript (6)
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  • NodeJS (3)
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  • Startup (2)
  • Agile (2)
  • Mongo (1)
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Adam N England

Professional Software Engineer, Amateur Human Being

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Java

Using Togglz in a Kotlin Spring Boot Project – Part 1

March 24, 2023

Full Source Code If you aren’t using Feature Flags in your software project yet, you should start right away. It’s the key to unlocking Continuous Deployment in production, as well your best friend in managing release risks. I won’t belabor the point here, but checkout the excellent guides from Atlassian

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Agile, Jira

Jira Automation – Populate your Sprint on Creation

January 26, 2021January 26, 2021

I have a long-standing love/hate relationship with Jira. The product has an impressive level of power & flexibility that it can often be intimidating to users. Jira’s automation features are a great step toward changing this. The no-code implementation is really well done, striking a great balance of high-power, low-complexity.

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OSX

CPU & RAM data in your OS X Terminal

January 19, 2021January 18, 2021

Today, I blindly ran a script designed for ubuntu. When it failed, I came across the following line On a Linux distro, /proc/cpuinfo provides information on the processor your computer is running. This file is not present in OS X. Instead we’ll need to use sysctl to get the information.

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DevOps

Level-up your Rails Security with SonarQube Generic Issue Format

January 15, 2021

Sonarqube is a popular solution for static analysis of code for quality and security issues. It supports 27 different languages, and the list keeps growing. The range of coverage is one of Sonarqube’s great strengths, but unfortunately, it puts the product in a “jack of all trades, master of none”

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Rails

Rails Benchmarking – Cache Store Latency

September 18, 2015January 14, 2021

If you’ve ever built a sizeable Rails app before, you know that efficient cache use can really supercharge your application. The storEDGE platform has always tried to offer the best performance to our users by keeping our memcached processes on the same instances as our application servers. While this is

DevOps

How we doubled our Vagrant performance with Rsync

August 21, 2015October 15, 2020

The Engineering team at Red Nova Labs has been working to simplify our development process. Recently, we’ve been experimenting with Vagrant as a good tool to do this. However, we’ve had the same problem that many developers have with Vagrant – performance. The app in question is very large, and

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Agile

Renovate Your Retrospectives

June 25, 2015October 15, 2020

Today I had the pleasure of presenting a session at the Kansas City Developer Conference. Renovate Your Retrospective – Adam England – KCDC 2015 from Adam England

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JavaScript, NodeJS

Rapid Lo-Dash is now available!

November 26, 2014September 3, 2020

I’m pleased to announce that my newest video series, Rapid Lo-Dash is available for purchase through Packt Publishing. You can get all the details and view the free sample here: Rapid Lo-Dash If you’re a JavaScript developer, and you aren’t using Lo-Dash yet, you really need to check it out.

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Rails

Avoiding Caching with Rails ActiveRecord

August 14, 2014September 3, 2020

Today, I came across a puzzling issue with Rails 4.1, ActiveRecord, and Postgres when trying to select random records from a database table. To demonstrate, let’s use a simple social network API example. Clients will POST a list of user, and I’ll “match” them to someone in my database. Easy

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Programming

First Impressions of Atom – By Adam

May 7, 2014October 15, 2020

For the past 3 years, I’ve worked primarily in Sublime Text, and it’s a fantastic application. I use it for Ruby, HTML, CSS, Javascript, CoffeeScript, and more. Today, Github open sourced their in-house developed text editor, Atom. A quick day working with Atom reveals that it may be a worthy

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Recent Posts

  • Using Togglz in a Kotlin Spring Boot Project – Part 1
  • Jira Automation – Populate your Sprint on Creation
  • CPU & RAM data in your OS X Terminal
  • Level-up your Rails Security with SonarQube Generic Issue Format
  • Rails Benchmarking – Cache Store Latency

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