GoDaddy’s Website Builder and the Woes of its Bulk Product Import Functionality
These are the problems we ran into while attempting to import products and pictures into GoDaddy’s Website Builder. Let’s just say it was difficult!
These are the problems we ran into while attempting to import products and pictures into GoDaddy’s Website Builder. Let’s just say it was difficult!
In recent weeks I’ve been busy on several projects in and outside of work. These projects have spawned lots of discussion surrounding the requirements for and definitions of done. Through these discussions I’ve been reminded of three essential points of effective communication. I chose the word reminded because I’ve learned all of these in the…
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This post shows how to use the date library maintained by Howard Hinnant to do simple formatting on a date string. It turns out to be surprisingly easy!
Recently, I had a project which needed to hold a date with the following properties: Hold the year, month, and day Take a C string (char*) in the format “YYYYMMDD” Do some basic validation and assumption fixing (disallow blank & empty input) Produce a string in a specified format for JSON output My extensive experience…
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This post addresses several of the common arguments against taking the time to implement unit testing.
This post in my unit testing series addresses the benefits of unit testing in general and in specific to the roles of Project Management, Developers, and QA.
Googletest and Fake Function Framework are the tools that I chose to use to unit test a C code base. Here I talk about why I chose them.
In a recent post, I expounded on what I can do for you as part of this business. In this post, I want to talk through why I started this business and what I want from it. For me, this will be some honest goal and expectation setting. I will be honest with what I…
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This post covers taking a Synology DS718+ NAS and installing a VPN server, the Synology Drive app (for accessing files), and the Synology DS Photo App.
I purchased a Synology DS718+ NAS and, in this post, cover unboxing the NAS, the initial software setup, and setting it up as a Time Machine backup server.