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Programming, Politics, and uhh…pineapples. A Recipe for Execution in Crunch Time. Posted by Charles Chen. For many small software teams with loose (or non-existent) project management, "crunch time" usually leads to the unraveling of the project to some degree and inevitable crisis management. In most of these cases, crunch time is the result of:. Putting too much work into too little time or insufficient resource load. Poor tracking of estimates to reality, no mechanism of measuring progress. Once the g...

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Programming, Politics, and uhh…pineapples. Adventures in Single-Sign-On: Cross Domain Script Request. Posted by Charles Chen. Consider a scenario where a user authenticates with ADFS (or equivalent identity provider (IdP) when accessing a domain such as https:/ www.domain.com (A). And then, from this page, a request is made to https:/ api.other-domain.com/app.js (B). Roughly speaking, the scenario looks like this:. Depiction of the scenario. However, this obviously posed a problem as, even though it appe...

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Programming, Politics, and uhh…pineapples. Pau Gasol on Kobe Bryant. Posted by Charles Chen. SI has an excellent "farewell" from Pau Gasol to Kobe Bryant. One of the key takeaways, for me:. He was challenging me because he expected more from me. When somebody cares about you, that’s when they challenge you. When they don’t care about you, they ignore you. That’s when you should worry. The whole thing is a good read and great piece of motivation to understand what it takes to succeed. Increases in scope a...

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Thoughts on Burnout « <CharlieDigital/>

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Programming, Politics, and uhh…pineapples. I was reading an NPR piece on worker burnout. And some different tactics taken by different companies to deal with it and came across a very nice, concise definition:. This sentence very concisely summarizes the key drivers of burnout and the factors at play are not as simple as "too much work". The article also brings up an interesting observation (well, it's just the next few paragraphs):. Ultimately, a company, a project, a product - it is the effort of many ...

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Programming, Politics, and uhh…pineapples. Adding Support for Azure AD Login (O365) to MVC Apps. Posted by Charles Chen. I spent the day toying around with ASP.NET MVC 5 web applications and authentication. I won't cover the step-by-step as there are plenty of blogs that have it covered. It seems that online, most examples and tutorials show you either how to use your organizational Azure AD account. Social identity providers but not. I wanted to be able to log in using Facebook, Google,. In the left nav.

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Programming, Politics, and uhh…pineapples. 5 Pitfalls to Software Project Failure. Posted by Charles Chen. Scope is enemy number 1. It is the amorphous blob that threatens to consume and grow until it is an uncontrollable monster, swallowing all of your carefully planned man hours. Over) Reliance on Manual Effort. To a certain extent, software engineering requires raw manpower to execute large projects that require many hundreds of thousands of lines of code and lots of moving parts. But within the lifec...

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Programming, Politics, and uhh…pineapples. Indoor Rock Climbing – Try It! Posted by Charles Chen. One of my recently discovered activities that I'm falling in love with is indoor rock climbing (though I suppose I may try outdoor rock climbing and bouldering one day, too). It's odd, but I also think that it's a very "romantic" (or "bromantic"? Where you had to schedule ahead and the classes are far more formalized, but there are also places like Rockville back home in NJ. Using harnesses and shoes. Five F...

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The Pineapple « <CharlieDigital/>

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Programming, Politics, and uhh…pineapples. As the blog sub-title suggests, there's pineapples involved in this here blog. Among the various interests that I have, amateur horticulture is one of them. There's just so much to be fascinated by in the plant kingdom. For example, did you know that technically, all of the commercially grown Hass avocados that we eat today are genetic clones of a. That was discovered in 1926. The same is true of navel oranges as well. So thus started my quest to grow a pineapple.

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Thoughts on Goal Oriented Leadership « <CharlieDigital/>

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Programming, Politics, and uhh…pineapples. Thoughts on Goal Oriented Leadership. I've been thinking heavily on the topic of leadership for several days now and trying to understand what works and what doesn't. I am currently in the midst of a massive and daring undertaking and putting tremendous demands on my team to deliver. Have the best idea on how to hit our goals? Instead, I only set our team goal and let each member of the team set their own goals for the day. The second is that it allows them to b...

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Programming, Politics, and uhh…pineapples. Check out the HTML formatted version here: http:/ www.charliedigital.com/charles.chen.html. Get a Microsoft Word version here: http:/ www.charliedigital.com/Charles C Chen.docx. Connect with me on LinkedIn: http:/ www.linkedin.com/in/charlescchen/. If you're reading this, you should consider perusing these as well:. I primarily work in the Microsoft space, but I'm not afraid to step outside. Of the Microsoft platform. To find better solutions. Adding Support for...