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" In 2001, 17 individuals gathered in the Wasatch mountains of Utah to find common ground around Agile. After much skiing, talking, relaxing, and eating, they arrived at four common values that led to the development of the Agile Manifesto."[ source ] [ Wikipedia ] Going to AgileManifecto.org , we see just 14 people listed, what appears to be their feeling on what promised so much hope some 15 years ago. Mike Beedle   Arie van Bennekum Alistair Cockburn "  “Agile has become overly decorated. Let’s scrape away those decorations for a minute, and get back to the center of agile. The center of agile is … ” [ 2015 ] Ward Cunningham "  "I have seen my ideas diluted as they diffused through the industry". You said "I’d much rather move to the next idea than struggle to keep the last idea pure." [ 2011 ] Martin Fowler Jim Highsmith  -  Don’t “Control” Agile Projects Agile Bureaucracy: When Practices become Principles Andrew Hunt ...

Unit tests (karma/jasmine) & End-to-end tests (protractor) If you are comfortable with Docker and Angular 2, all you need is the Dockerfile. If you are new to testing in Docker, this short article will bring you up to speed. If you need more help getting up to speed with Docker, begin with my previous article: Docker for Angular 2 devs . Installation  In order to develop Angular 2+ in a container, you need to install Docker on a computer or VM. Docker takes a bit of memory and can take a lot of space so the biggest box you can give it is best. Once Docker is installed, start is up. Make sure all your docker commands are run from the folder that contains the Dockerfile. Dockerfile  Docker works by reading the description of a Dockerfile (or several in conjunction), to build out an image. Once the image is running, it is called a container. This particular Dockerfile is based on a Docker image that already has headless chrome, markadams/chromium-xvfb-js:7. There are s...

Docker is a Virtual Environment Docker containers are great for adding new developers to existing projects, or for learning new technologies without polluting your existing developer machine/host. Docker allows you to put a fence around the environment while still using it. Why Docker for Angular 2? Docker is an easy way to get up and going on a new stack, environment, tool, or operating system without having to learn how to install and configure the new stack. A collection of docker images are available from Docker Hub ranging from simple to incredibly complex -- saving you the time and energy. Angular 2 examples frequently include a Dockerfile in the repository which makes getting the example up and running much quicker -- if you don't have to focus on package installation and configuration. The base Angular 2 development stack uses Node, TypeScript, Typings, and a build system (such as SystemJs or Webpack ). Instead of learning each stack element before/while learning...

Write a function to calculate the nth Fibonacci Sequence is a common interview question and often the solution is something like   int Fib(int n) {    if(n < 1) return 1;    return Fib(n-1) + Fib(n-2); }   The next question is to ask for n=100, how many items will be on the stack . The answer is not 100 but actually horrible! It is closer to 2^100. take the first call – we start a stack on Fib(99) and one on Fib(98). There is nothing to allow Fib(99) to borrow the result of Fib(98).  So one step is two stack items to recurse.  Each subsequent call changes one stack item into 2 items.   For example 2 –> call [Fib(1), Fib(0)] 3 –> calls [ Fib(2)->[Fib(1), Fib(0)], Fib(1) –> Fib(0) ] 4 –> calls [ Fib(3)->[[[ Fib(2)->[Fib(1), Fib(0)], Fib(1) –> Fib(0) ]], Fib(2)->[Fib(1), Fib(0)], Fib(1) –> Fib(0) ] Missing this issue is very often seen with by-rote developers (who are excell...

While working on a recent project, a major stumbling block was a lack of clear documentation of what happened where. This was confirmed when I attempted to search for some of the messages returned to the Log REST points by iPhone.. There were zero hits!     In terms of a Store Card, let us look at the apparent Sequence Diagram     Log Errors Messages Seen and Likely Meaning Passbook Inactive or Deleted or some one changed Auth Token [2016-08-28 11:57:01 -0400] Unregister task (for device ceed8761e584e814ed4fe73cbb334ee9, pass type pass.com.reddwarfdogs.card.dev, serial number 85607BFE98D91A-765F7B05-D5E4-4B32-B16D-69C2038EF522; with web service url https://llc.reddwarfdogs.com/passbook) encountered error: Authentication failure [2016-08-28 20:44:25 +0700] Register task (for device 19121d6b570b31a3fa56dbd45411c933, pass type pass.com.reddwarfdogs.card.dev, serial number 85607BFE98D91A-765F7B05-D5E4-4B32-B16D-69C2038EF522; with web...

While doing a load test of a new Apple Passbook application, I suddenly saw some 200K transmissions errors from my WebApi application. Searching the web I found that a “high” rate of connect/disconnect to Apple Push Notification Service being reported as causing APNS to do a forced disconnect.   While Apple does have a limit (very very high) on the number of notifications before they will refuse connections for an hour, the limit for connect/disconnect is much lower. After some playing around a bit I found that if I persisted the connection via a static, I no longer have this issue.   Below is a sample of the code. Note : we disconnect and reconnect whenever an error happens (I have not seen an error yet)    using Newtonsoft.Json.Linq; using PushSharp.Apple; using System; using System.Collections.Generic; using System.Security.Cryptography.X509Certificates; using System.Text; namespace RedDwarfDogs.Passbook.Engine.Notification { ...

This year I had a explicit, yet vague, project assigned to me: Move our Apple PkPass from a third party provider to our own internal system. The working environment was the Microsoft Stack with C# and a little googling found that the first 90% of the work could be done by nuget, namely: Install-Package dotnet-passbook Install-Package PushSharp Created a certificate file on the apple developer site and we are done … easy project… not quite   Unfortunately both in-house expertise and 3rd part expertise involved in the original project had moved on. Welcome to reverse engineering black boxes.   The Joy of Certificates! Going to http://www.apple.com/certificateauthority/   open a can of worms. The existing instructions assumed you have a Mac not Windows 10. The existing instructions found on the web( https://tomasmcguinness.com/2012/06/28/generating-an-apple-ios-certificate-using-windows/ )  broke due to some change with Windows or Apple in April ...