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read the glob docs! And never forget the sacrafice that glob is making for you.

extglob  changes the way certain characters are parsed. It is necessary to have a newline (not just a semicolon) between  shopt -s extglob  and any subsequent commands to use it. You cannot enable extended globs inside a  group command  that uses them, because the entire block is parsed before the  shopt  is  evaluated .  Note that the typical  function  body  is  a  group command . An unpleasant workaround could be to use a  subshell command list  as the function body. Therefore, if you use this option in a script, it is best put right under the shebang line. Toggle line numbers 1 #!/usr/bin/env bash 2 shopt -s extglob # and others, such as nullglob dotglob 3

Velocity and Burn Rate Budget

This is a great summary of where to get to in how you budget projects. http://www.agileadvice.com/2011/02/04/agilemanagement/calculating-a-budget-for-an-agile-project-in-six-easy-steps/ Most importantly, Using the definition of “done” add pre- and post- Iteration budgets Every agile team is supposed to be “ cross-functional ” but in reality, there are limits to this.  For example, in most software project environments, teams do not include full-time lawyers.  This limited cross-functionality determines what the team is capable of delivering in each cycle – anything outside the team’s expertise is usually done as either pre-work or after the iterations (cycles) are finished.  Sometimes, this work can be done concurrently with the team.  In order to understand this work, it is often valuable to draw an organization-wide  value stream map  for project delivery.  This map will show you the proportion of time spent for each type of work in the proje...

Estimate the Minimum Viable Product Backlog

Estimated size needs to include all work done by any silo'd team to get the next iteration on the vertical slice to a done-done state in a agreed upon production or production like environment. That means that this includes qa, dba and sysadmin effort to get this out the door not just what a silo'd dev team does. That way the estimate accounts for the time it takes to wade through the red tape of db change requests, glitches in continuous integration, system config changes, qa effort including customer feedback and anything else that creeps up on the scope of delivering your Minimum Viable Product. Estimating across silos has several additional beneficial outcomes. 1. Metrics gathered from estimates can be used to retrospect the entire process and effort through delivery. 2. It's a start toward deeper collaboration and breaking down knowledge silos - anyone can call bs on an estimate as they learn more about what it takes to execute a change in a part of the system they a...

JSON stores and Aggregation for system logs and audit trail. Stop logging with format strings!

This first article explains why you might want to store logs and BI data in a machine readable format. https://journal.paul.querna.org/articles/2011/12/26/log-for-machines-in-json/ The second two get at how you might do that and be able to transition/re-purpose your existing relational stores into a cloud based scalable framework.  http://docs.mongodb.org/ecosystem/tutorial/use-aggregation-framework-with-java-driver/ http://www.bityota.com/3-steps-to-analytics-on-mongodb/ Logging might present a relatively low profile target for schema-less implementation and give you a chance to expose your organization to an important technology for modern web development. With your foot in the door you might convince them to add usage auditing and before you know it you are doing up front analysis on usage in front of your next project.
Answer to interview question - "What is the most important thing Object Oriented languages have contributed to software development?" ...sufficiently  model  the real world and problem at hand before jumping the gun. ...the success of graphical user interfaces like X and Windows. A GUI consists of several objects which have a behaviour on their own, something that OO is able to represent closely. ...polymorphism to match the logical way classification worked in real life -> code reuse ..limit project churn s tackexchange Tony Hoare introduced Null references in ALGOL W back in 1965 “simply because it was so easy to implement”, says Mr. Hoare. He talks about that decision considering it “my billion-dollar mistake”.  http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Null-References-The-Billion-Dollar-Mistake-Tony-Hoare
Nice presentation on early use of schema-less data source for EMR implementation.  http://gradvs1.mgateway.com/download/mumps-acceptable.pdf . Now with JSON/Javascript bridge.