The Blog of Mark (SoftCoder) and Vickie Vejvoda

Technology and Software Development

We have backlogs in Agile and we have technical debt, but what about “moral debt”?
What I am refering to is the phenomenon of things, actions, people, decisions which lead to a bad moral outcome. A bad moral outcome could be something that”de-moralizes” team members, or it could be “ethically immoral” or anything else that makes [...]

While the answer seems to be very elusive it appears to be quite simple. The java jar tool is required (part of the jdk I believe) and it can be used like this:
jar uf myJarFile.jar com\vsoft\servlet\myServlet.class
This will replace the class myServlet.class inside the myJarFile.jar with a new one located in com\vsoft\servlet\myServlet.class
You may open the jar [...]

These days I find myself spending a little extra time researching my hardware purchases to ensure they work with Linux (since we now nearly exclusively run Ubuntu in our house). A few names that seem “friendly” towards Linux are Brother, Epson, LinkSys, DLink and sometimes HP. My pick for a scanner was the Epson Perfection [...]

Friday evening was a long wait. My son Timothy (despise not his youth) ran his bar foot into a pitch fork. We made out way to the emergency dept in Salmon Arm, BC and the next 3.5 hours felt strangely familiar!
I watched people walk into the ER and get “triaged” just like defects in software [...]

We have been using the marvellous DLINK DNS323 NAS (network attached storage) device on our family network for years now. This device has become the most important part of our digital record keeping. A week ago one of my sons lost his hard drive on his Ubuntu Linux box as the motor died. I felt [...]