This is the guide I wish I had when I was researching how to convert a 2013 Giant Defy road bike in to an electric bicycle using a Bafang centre drive kit. When I started I knew converting a road bike to electric wasn’t too common and that there would be difficulties. I had to read heaps of different blogs and watch lots of videos to figure out how to convert the bicycle. I managed to get it all…
Hi, thanks for signing up to the newsletter. Mary Meeker (Kleiner Perkins) has released the state of the internet report for 2018 - 294 pages of awesome . Personalised shopping and mobile advertising are growing like CRAZY! I’ve had a flu this week so I spent most of my awake time watching Rich Hickey videos on https://awesometalks.party Farnham Street has a wonderful interview with Patrick…
I recently got a macbook at work and I’m doing only web development these days so no Visual Studio. I had to do a bit of reading to get things set up and I don’t want to do it again so here is a post for me! First thing is download iTerm from: https://www.iterm2.com/ Open a new iTerm and run the following to install Homebrew (this is like chocolatey) next install oh my zsh Follow this great…
I lead a team of developers that work on one of the busiest New Zealand websites. We have ~4 million members and ~850,000 unique users every day. Working at this kind of scale means the real people who buy and use our products can get lost behind user personas or Jira ticket numbers. To bridge the gap between my team and their customers I organised a week of hands on outstanding customer…
If you’re selling your teams on some form of agile but the reality they work in is completely different, you are damaging and demotivating your teams through confusion and an impossible to achieve vision. If you’ve adopted ‘agile’ do yourself a favor and check the health of the adoption right now. Every organisation has a custom agile adoption. That’s the point, being reactive to what works for…
A.k.a. how to get the truth from your direct reports while you sit back and eat cake. You’ve been a manager for a year and you’re not sure it’s all going OK? You don’t know if you’re providing maximum value to your team or which specific aspects of your people leadership to improve? You might be having regular catch ups but you’re not receiving honest leadership feedback, or maybe you’re getting…
Here is a quick one. One of my colleagues was trying to figure out how to get the stunning windows lock screen images. They are hidden away in a folder on windows but this script will get them, rename them to .jpg and place them in a folder on your desktop. You have to run it each time you want to get your windows lock screen images. So save the script below to your computer, to run it right click…
Last week I offered to give a workshop on machine learning to share some of what I’ve learned so far. I had 2 goals for my workshop – first, I wanted to show everyone that they shouldn’t be afraid of machine learning. Second, I wanted to get people set up with anaconda so they can continue to learn themselves. I had a cross functional group of ~10 colleagues – business analysts, data analysts, UX…
Wow, it’s a week after Startup Weekend Auckland. I’ve had time to get my thoughts straight about the whole experience. I learned a hell of a lot of positive lessons about idea validation, about myself and about working in teams. Friday Night We started the event on Friday night with a brief introduction to the format and some key organizers. Thirty enthusiastic 60 second pitches quickly followed…
Last week I had an amazing opportunity to present about machine learning and innovation to 110 people leaders at my company. It was a mixed audience of technical and non technical people. My message is that machine learning needs to be understood by everyone in the business, not just the data scientists. Domain knowledge with machine learning will really enable successful data projects. Here are…
I’ve been putting together a React app and I needed cheap, fast hosting so I went to put it on Heroku. Configuring Heroku The community have put together a build pack for create-react-app. You can basically deploy in 2 minutes. Assuming you have the heroku command line tool already configured the following gist describes the commands to setup the build pack: https://gist.github.com/darraghoriordan…
Three weeks ago I discovered the fast.ai course. They offer a practical deep learning course for coders where you get straight in to building neural networks. They provide a huge amount of support through wikis, forums, aws scripts and tooling, videos and book recommendations. AI competitions The first step in this AI course is building an neural network for detecting cats and dogs in images using…
From lunch to acquisition, how Atlassian bought Trello . Success stories from developers who started at age 35,40,45 . Why Basecamp chose profit over venture capital. How do you measure leadership? from YCombinator. Folk musician Jesse had his Youtube account hacked and lost all hist fans and likes. No recourse from Google so he’s starting again . The power of internet giants to have huge…
Web Stock is tech conference like no other, held in Wellington, New Zealand. Once again I left feeling energized and impassioned after listening to all the speakers on such a wide range of subjects. Day 2 Jonathon Colman ( @jcolman ) – Wicked Ambiguity and UX Introduced Tame vs Wicked problems . Some examples of wicked problems – Designing to communicate with aliens and designing to warn people…
Last year I launched a new API for an integration project. It’s using Microsoft’s WebApi framework. I was looking for a fast way to document the API so I wouldn’t have to do much work and clients could use the API easily. After some research it was obvious that I needed Swagger. Swagger Swagger () is an open source framework that makes it really easy to design, build and document APIs. At it’s…
Web Stock is tech conference like no other, held in Wellington, New Zealand. Once again I left feeling energized and impassioned after listening to all the speakers on such a wide range of subjects. These are my summaries and don’t even come close to describing the full scope and quality of each talk. Use only as a guide to hear more. I’ll add links when the videos are released. I also may have…
Seth Godin wants us to stop calling them soft-skills . A beautiful photo story of Faberge and his eggs . The surprising ways Facebook collects and uses your data , especially when you don’t think they are. Deep learning will change everything . Enjoy and thanks for reading! dar Subscribe here: https://tinyletter.com/darraghor Related
I recently had a problem where our test analysts use Ready API software from Smart bear but our API authentication does a custom hashing function on the content. For tests to work we had to hash the entire request and apply headers for each test step. There is an events hook in Ready API where you can add Java code to be run for event triggers. Unwrapping the content in the available request…