Reading Time: 4 minutes The Basics Learn Color Theory for fun and profit! Do you like math, art, and the pursuit of balance? If so follow along as the highlights of Color Theory are revealed. Primary Use Cases Communicate effectively with your audience Super-charge the aesthetics of your design project Add harmony to your creations Data visualization in diagrams,…
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Reading Time: 3 minutes Salary negotiation for programmers isn’t much different than any other job. I ran into this question on Quora, so I started answering it there, this is an extension of that post specifically for programmers. If an interviewer asks me what I am expecting as my salary, what should I answer? Quora Ask for what you…
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Reading Time: 3 minutes How do I use email? Email is extremely ubiquitous, and many of us have our methods for taming our inboxes. I won’t add to the legion of how-to articles specific to using email clients. In the following paragraphs, I will lay out my approach to keeping my inbox clean. My approach applies to any email…
Reading Time: 6 minutes A software development philosophy guides every developer throughout their career. Some adhere to prevailing philosophies that are written down in books or written down in code. Some invent their own beliefs based on their view of the software world. My philosophical influences come from the likes of Domain-Driven Design, Test Driven Development, the Agile Software…
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Reading Time: 2 minutes SignalFx and EC2 are a match made in heaven. If you need to ensure the uptime of your EC2 instances monitoring tools like SignalFx is a must-have. Follow along for details that will help you use SignalFx to monitor an existing EC2 instance. If you have different EC2 & SignalFx integration requirements see this documentation.…
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Reading Time: 3 minutes Cloud providers overview in a few words.