Bug reports are actually easy to write, yet so many times they are written without the important information. If you check those 9 points and provide the information where it makes sense, you help the person trying to fix the bug a lot. Note that I am leaving out the reporter and date here, since that is usually implicitly given in any digital reporting format. This makes the following checklist also a bit smaller. ...

What We use a single Confluence page for our weekly review and our approach is intentionally simple: Keep one live page that is updated ahead of each session Focus on outcomes, not activities Don’t describe what you did — describe what the product can do now After the session, create a read-only snapshot of the page (e.g. weekly, with a date in the title) That’s it. You end up with: ...

Software projects have the tendency to always grow out of proportion and most often become hard to manage because of all the other tickets. While this Jira automation is not a replacement for regular clean-ups and refinements of your tickets, it definitely helped us to keep the clutter in the project low. ...

by jochen issing Introduction In every company I worked for, every engineer on every level had to write a self-review about their performance at least once a year. These self-reviews are not just a formality but a crucial part of the performance evaluation and promotion process. They allow engineers to reflect on their achievements, demonstrate their value to the company, and advance their careers. While the task of self-reflection may not be a favorite among many engineers, it is a powerful tool that can significantly enhance your career growth. By mastering the art of writing effective self-reviews, you not only learn to present your achievements in a way that is easier for others to comprehend, but you also gain a deeper understanding of your professional journey. This self-awareness is a rare but crucial skill in engineering. ...

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I just wanted to delete all tags set in my Applications folder on OS X and had to look up how to accomplish that in the Terminal since it a) is quite cumbersome to do it in Finder and b) it did not quite work somehow. The tags seem to be saved in the extended attributes com.apple.FinderInfo and com.apple.metadata:_kMDItemUserTags. For completeness, here is my complete “script”: cd /Applications for file in *; do echo $file; sudo xattr -d com.apple.metadata:_kMDItemUserTags "$file"; sudo xattr -d com.apple.FinderInfo "$file"; done That’s it and Cheers, ...

My Disqus module did not seem to work any longer (the comments no longer showed up in the blog posts). I fixed it hopefully by reinstalling the Disqus module, updating the Libraries API module to version 2.x (and then reconfiguring the Disqus module). The error message in my http error log was: Call to undefined function libraries_detect() Should work again now. That’s it again iss

I just fixed an issue that kept the OS X Contacts.app from synchronising with OwnCloud when running behind a reverse proxy. For those who wonder, a reverse proxy is useful if you have a gateway http server that forwards http requests for web servers in a private network. First some details on my issue: I have several web servers running in (FreeBSD) jails that listen on loopback network devices. The request coming into the host are forwarded by an nginx instance on the host to the specific jail (identified by the hostname). ...

After I upgraded OwnCloud, I got the following error message when trying to enable the Calendar or Contacts plugins: cURL error 60: SSL certificate problem: unable to get local issuer certificate The only way to get around this was to download the zip files from the OwnCloud App Server and enable them in the GUI or using the php occ command. That’s it again iss