Jon Phenow

Jon Phenow

Custom file templates for Visual Studio (Mac)

November 15, 2017 • ☕️☕️ 8 min read

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Recently, we’ve been doing a little restructuring of our Xamarin-based mobile apps. We wound up with a stricter pattern for building out views and their elements. Coincidentally, that’s providing…

Sierra broke my keyboard modifier keys and I refused to wait for a fix

September 23, 2016 • ☕️ 2 min read

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I’m addicted to staying up to date on software. I seem to do this to myself because of a healthy mix of personal and professional curiosity with a sprinkle of masochism. The latest update to Apple’s…

Get your head out of your ass

August 2, 2016 • ☕️ 2 min read

Software DevelopmentSoftwareSoftware EngineeringTechTechnology

Hold up. You’re still using MySQL? That’s hilarious. Droll even. Let me explain all the reasons you should no longer be using MySQL. If you want to attract talent, you should be using more exciting…

Feeling Safe Across Data Centers

June 29, 2016 • ☕️ 5 min read

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In a perfect world all of your servers are hard-wired to each other in a room. There would be one opening with which the world connects to your little slice of the Internet. That way all of your…

Balance Driven Development

May 20, 2016 • ☕️ 5 min read

Software DevelopmentTddTesting

I mentioned in my last post that I would talk about my opinions on TDD, so here it is. Kicking it off, I will explain what TDD is, how it’s meant to work. Then I’ll explain what some people have said…

Failure as Progress

May 18, 2016 • ☕️ 4 min read

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Failure has a negative connotation and reasonably so; it literally means that the thing you set out to do did not happen or happened incorrectly. Looking at each step and being distressed by failure…

Technical Debt: A Game of Perspectives

December 14, 2015 • ☕️ 5 min read

Software DevelopmentTechnical DebtSoftware

In software we like to use puns and metaphors — mostly to be cute, but sometimes it gets a point across. “Technical Debt” as a term, luckily for its creator Ward Cunningham, is both cute and useful…

Locking down with Duo

November 23, 2015 • ☕️ 1 min read

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At Highrise we’ve been really busy improving our CRM product. Usually our focus is directly on additions or tweaks for our customers. Currently, though, we’re also working on streamlining internally…

46 hours

November 13, 2015 • ☕️ 3 min read

ProductivityTime Management

365 days in a year. There’s 52 weeks somewhere in there. Each week with 7 days. Every day has 24 hours. In 1 week we have 168 hours to spend. 168 hours to work, to wrap up in each others arms, to…