• Product Management,  Programming

    Create Jira Issues From The Command Line

    You can use the command line to create Jira tickets. In the below one-liner, we’re going to bring in some standard json and create a ticket. We’ll use curl and use -u to define a username and password, then -X to define a POST and –data to define the contents of the post, wrapped in the single quotes below. Then -H defines the content type as json and a URL to your Jira rest endpoint, “Issues” in the below code: curl -D- -u krypted:MySuperSecretPassword -X POST --data '{"fields":{"project":{"key": “DOG”},”summary": “Make my feature better.”,”description": “Going to make everything better ever ever ever by doing things and by things I mean allll…

  • JAMF,  Product Management

    Jamf Freshdesk Plugin

    Ever wanted to be able to view devices from your Jamf server from within your Freshdesk environment? Well, I just posted a new integration on the Jamf Marketplace just for Freshdesk. This plugin will display a search bar on the right side of the screen. Enter a serial number to find your devices. If a match is found, you’ll see information on the device (note: this is up on GitHub so you can change what fields you see).If you don’t find anything that matches a given pattern, you’ll get an error.

  • Articles and Books,  Product Management,  Programming

    Some Reasons Not To Pay Down Tech Debt

    Every development organization has tech debt. Modern development projects have gotten so large and complex that there are now dozens of libraries, frameworks, and services implemented in a modern solution. Additionally, there are always new techniques, new modules, new frameworks, new skills, and new perspectives. Applications are now ecosystems, constantly evolving, and our perspectives about them must evolve as well. Yes, a burn down chart looks better when you pay down the debt. Yes, security flaws can force you to pay down technical debt. Yes, most developers always want to fix all the things, including impending dead technology. Modern solutions have many stakeholders. The modern roadmap has to include benefits…

  • Articles and Books,  Product Management

    My Huffington Post Article: From Dungeon Master to SCRUM Master

    My latest post on Huffington Post is “From Dungeon Master to Scrum Master: 15 Software Development Lessons from Dungeons and Dragons” and is a bit of a revamp of my D&D article from here, but geared towards SCRUM mastering and managing Software Development teams. You may find it fun and kitschy or you may find it dumb. I’m kinda’ ok with both (I’m learning that I can’t make all the people happy all the time). A sampling of that article: I started playing Dungeons and Dragons in about the 5th or 6th grade. I didn’t get good at it for a while, but once I did, I didn’t play much longer…

  • Articles and Books,  Interviewing,  Mass Deployment,  Product Management,  public speaking,  Small Business

    Article on Content Strategy on Huffington Post

    I’ve been thinking a lot about content strategy and the why and when of how articles are posted. I’ll keep writing whatever I want, whenever, often times based on what I happen to be working on at that moment. In other words, I actually have no content strategy for krypted, and I don’t feel the need to implement one. But at least I explored it, thought about it, and got a few notes down for friends who do want one, or are thinking about it. That article went up on Huffington Post yesterday at http://www.huffingtonpost.com/charles-edge/the-importance-of-having-_2_b_9563304.html. A snippet of the article: Search engine optimization (SEO) involves strategies and techniques that, when used properly,…

  • Bushel,  Product Management

    Interview with Chuck Joiner of MacVoices re: Bushel

    My third podcast in the last couple of months, this time with Chuck Joiner again, of MacVoices. And we talked a pretty good bit about Bushel and Mobile Device Management. Thanks to Chuck formatting this whole thing pretty awesome and helping bring my explanations to a point where they actually make sense! http://www.macvoices.com/macvoices-15055-charles-edge-jamf-software-discusses-mobile-device-management-bushel/