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The one hour challenge

So I haven't blogged in a long time due to becoming a father. I've gone from having all the time in the world before this and not realising, to having no time and realising it. I'm going to start a mini series of blog

The false Scrum future

> There are only two hard things in Computer Science: cache invalidation and naming things. -- Phil Karlton I agree with Phil, I'd also like to add estimation to this list. Of the three it's the hardest as you cannot ever solve the problem due to

The proximity paradox

> Will consider remote for the right candidate, always seems to suggest to me that companies are willing to settle for proximity over quality — scalabilitysolved (@scalesolved) September 5, 2016 [https://twitter.com/scalesolved/status/772791666369527808] For the right candidate only... Remote work is growing but it is still the exception

Technical debt inflation

In my last blog post about the tenets of technical debt, I covered some of my thoughts about technical debt. One of my thoughts has been playing on my mind since I wrote it: Treat technical debt exactly as you'd treat monetary debt, it can be a good

The tenets of technical debt

> If features are roads leading users to new experiences, then technical debt is the nasty pothole that one day will break their axle. Developers dislike technical debt, it's the equivalent of running out of oil in your almost perfect machine. Product owners dislike technical debt, it gets

In Mongo we trust

10 minute crash course in MongoDB Recently I've been working more and more with MongoDB, I previously worked heavily with Couchbase and blogged a lot about how to query [https://www.owenconvey.com/4-ways-to-make-couchbase-do-the-hard-work-part-i/] Couchbase if coming from the SQL world. The following is a ten minute crash

Doing more with less

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- In the programming world it seems very popular to predict potential ceilings of projects or even engineers due to the languages/frameworks that are utilized as though they are the be all and end all indicator of future success. It's a viewpoint that is both propagated by

Don't hold back your Ruby

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- In the first article [https://www.owenconvey.com/dont-hold-back-your-programming/] of this series we looked at general must read programming books and in the second [https://www.owenconvey.com/dont-hold-back-your-java/] we took a look at the Java world. Now to step up to the plate is one of my favourite

Don't hold back your Java

In the last article [https://www.owenconvey.com/dont-hold-back-your-programming/] we looked at the best books to improve your knowledge of the core concepts of programming. This time we are specifically going to look at the best Java books (in my humble opinion) that give not only juniors a great base

Don't hold back your programming

When people ask how to improve their programming skills invariably they are told to write more code, to dive into open source projects or to build a replica of a well known piece of functionality. All of those tips are great but at the same time they can reinforce bad

Couchbase woes on Stackoverflow

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I spend quite a lot of time on Stackoverflow, possibly the greatest programming site in internet history. Why? Well it's a great way to learn from some incredibly talented and passionate people, usually documents the obvious pain points of a language/framework and it can be quite

4 Ways to make Couchbase do the hard work: Part IV

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- In part 3 [https://www.owenconvey.com/4-ways-to-make-couchbase-do-the-hard-work-part-iii/] of this series we looked at compound keys in more detail and also into persisting view data. Today we are going to look at what to do when Couchbase's query model can't fulfill what you need! (Or

4 Ways to make Couchbase do the hard work: Part III

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- In part 2 [https://www.owenconvey.com/4-ways-to-make-couchbase-do-the-hard-work-part-ii/] of this series we looked at using compound keys for more advanced querying, today we are going to modify our data set slightly so we can explore other querying methods. Our new documents are going to look like this: All that

4 Ways to make Couchbase do the hard work: Part II

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Basic analytics on our data set In part one of the series here [https://www.owenconvey.com/4-ways-to-make-couchbase-do-the-hard-work-part-i/] we covered setting up our Couchbase node and populating it with a sample of documents. As a quick refresher here is what one of our sample documents looks like. The query

4 Ways to make Couchbase do the hard work: Part I

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Let's see those new users! Views are the Couchbase way of generating indices so that you can query your data on attributes other than the document key. In this article we are going to explore the Map Reduce system of Couchbase to allow you to access your

5 Best Blogs To Follow About Couchbase

The community for couchbase is still quite small, but if you know where to look there are some great blogs out there. Here is our rundown of the top 5 best blogs to follow for Couchbase news and articles (in no particular order). Without any further ado here we go!

Installing Couchbase on AWS and Ubuntu

Couchbase [http://couchbase.com] is a nosql database built upon memcache technology with persistence and flexibility in both scaling up and down. Here is how to install on AWS. (If you are just installing on ubuntu locally or on your own server then just follow from step 5 onwards). 1.