ElegantCode

1 Oct

2019

Traditional Agile is now missing the point

By: David Starr Category:Agile4 Comments

The Manifesto for Agile Software Development is pretty long in the tooth. That transformative document was created in 2001, 18 years old at the time of this writing. The resulting humble web page ignited a conversation which ultimately changed the way software is written and delivered. Agile techniques have leaked successfully into other types of […]

29 Sep

2019

CORS your dev environment for Node.js and React.js

By: David Starr Category:Code1 Comment

Building a Node.js and React.js full stack app can have its tooling annoyances, one of which is getting the Node.js server to allow your requests in from your webpack-dev-server hosted React app, which is going to be running on a different port than your Node application. There are many ways to develop around this, but […]

25 Sep

2019

Data, data, and more data

By: David Starr Category:General Post1 Comment

I’m running an experiment by blogging on another platform and linking to those posts from elegantcode.com. I don’t know if this is an effective model, but this post will help me learn. Data, data, and more data: Bringing it all together As the host of the Azure for Industry Podcast and I recently sat down […]

9 Dec

2018

Turning AI Toward Software Itself

By: David Starr Category:CodeTag: ai, Code, github, Machine Learning, Software Development. Microsoft:

What will happen as we turn AI toward our code? This article examines this idea and paints a possible near-future state of software design.

18 Nov

2018

Exploring the new Cosmos DB async JavaScript API

By: David Starr Category:Azure, CodeTag: async/await, cosmos, JavaScript:

When learning a new database API, I typically create a small script to exercises the simple CRUD operations to explore how the API is formed, its logical usage, etc. Sometimes I’ll add a few more operations exercising more complex operations. The new JavaScript SDK for Cosmo DB has been up on GitHub about 4 months now, […]

12 Oct

2018

Agile in non-software development teams

By: David Starr Category:General PostTag: New Post:

I’ve had some great opportunities working with teams applying lean and agile techniques to domains beyond software development. Along with other areas, I’m having lots of conversations around applying Scrum in HR teams. This is fairly unique because the core usage model for Scrum is to apply it when the work is fairly unknown and […]

13 Sep

2018

How Key Vault is used to secure the Healthcare AI Blueprint

By: David Starr Category:General Post

System security is a top priority for any healthcare organization. There are many types of security including physical, network, application, email and so on. This article covers the system security provided by Azure Key Vault. Specifically, we examine the Key Vault implementation used in the Azure Healthcare blueprint. The intent is to demonstrate how a Key Vault […]