software engineering
I’ve been playing around with Docker and Ansible this break. I just hit a rather bizarre issue that kept cropping up. The error I got was “Failed to import the required Python library (Docker SDK for Python: docker (Python >= 2.7) or docker-py (Python 2.6)) I tried
software engineering
I’ve started to play with SearchKick again as a new component to my pet project and I kept hitting a FrozenError message whenever I ran the re-index call Traceback (most recent call last): 1: from (irb):1 FrozenError (can't modify frozen String) After running a trace, I
software engineering
I decided I was going to try to develop on my Ubuntu machine today and I ran into the following error: .rbenv/versions/2.5.0/lib/ruby/2.5.0/rubygems.rb:289:in `find_spec_for_exe': can't find gem bundler (>= 0.a) with
gadget
The Samsung Galaxy Tab S3 has been my primary personal device for the past couple of years. However, I decided to upgrade my Samsung Galaxy Tab S3 to the Samsung Galaxy Tab S4 as Costco had a really good deal on. I was able to pick up the Samsung Galaxy
application
We’ve been using Microsoft Teams here at WE since the initial beta launch in 2016 and I’ve been completely blown away by it. Microsoft Teams has completely changed the way I work here at WE. I see Microsoft Teams as a productivity tool rather than just a communication
work
I’ve been reflecting a lot on my work and my career over the past few months and one of the things that I’ve been contemplating on the many similarities between work and team sports. Most successful businesses are the result of successful teams therefore many of the principles
life
The retrospective that I write yearly is an opportune moment to reflect on the year that just past. Whenever I write my retrospectives, I start by reading the last one to see what I was thinking about last year and then comment on how I did against my last year’
gadget
My Pixel Slate finally arrived weeks after it was ordered due to the Canada Postal strike on Sunday December 9th. The total package of tablet, keyboard and pen cost me a whopping CAD $2700 in total. After using it for two weeks, my perspective of the Pixel Slate is that
application
Google Hangouts had been my primary messaging platform for very many years. The ongoing joke among my friends had always been “we’re not friends unless you’re on Google Hangouts.” So much so that many of my friends humoured me by installing Google Hangouts and I’d be the
gadget
The news announcement of the Google Pixel Slate at the Made by Google event this year(2018) really caught my attention. Android tablets have had a very difficult time finding a place in the market place despite having a great start with the Nexus 7. Since then, it’s been
The K Unit started as a pet project with me coding the original blog in C#, migrated to DotNetNuke before finally settling with WordPress. After a decade of writing on that domain, I decided to start over again with a new blog and domain, firsttiger.com. The move makes sense