Twenty years is a long time when you’re looking ahead at them. But, wow, they sure seem like a blink of the eye when you’re looking back. We started E-g when most of the founding partners were still in their 20s. Back then, leaving stable, well-paying jobs only to launch into the unknown abyss of starting a company seemed … exactly like the thing we should do. Life has a way of mellowing you out. Looking back now, we’re amazed… [continue]
Zoom (Partial) Family Photo
The stories we’ll tell! That’s what we’ve been saying around here as we look to the days ahead. One responsibility of living through these times is to make memories. Most of the E-g family is getting together weekly to catch up on business, but also to stay connected and catch candid glimpses of our families, homes, pets, hobbies, and so on. Whole-company Zoom calls have never happened here before – and they never would have, outside of this crazy season… [continue]
Converting Azure Functions to AWS Lambdas
TL;DR – The source code is here and converting Azure Functions to AWS Lambdas is really fun and easy! Some background For the unfamiliar, serverless computing is a way to host code that runs on a cloud provider and can scale resources automatically to handle load. Yes, technically there is a server, but to the developer writing the code he or she need not be concerned about that. This idea of being able to offload the worry and maintenance of… [continue]
Social-Distance Friendly Family Virtual Scavenger Hunt Day Out
“What is a social-distance friendly family virtual scavenger hunt day out?” you ask. (And, wow, isn’t that a mouthful of words??) Well, we adapted our normal first company hike of the year, threw in a fun photo scavenger list, encouraged each person/family to go out and do their hike/photo-shoot in a social-distance friendly way – and then come back to share their fun day out with the rest of the company. Here’s a small selection of our photos – with… [continue]
2020 Easter Sunday Fun
It might be all kinds of crazy-different out there these days. And sure, we have to figure out how to live daily life in a social-distancing way. But some things remain stable even in the swirl of such change – such as celebrating Easter. Here are some of our families doing just that this past weekend! There are remote egg coloring parties, remote worship services, indoor egg hunts, Minecraft egg hunts, and multi-State family Zoom gatherings… just to mention a… [continue]
Becoming A Trail-Blazor
The software development landscape is often an image of a rushing river more than a stalwart mountain. With the introduction of WebAssembly, many languages are working to implement their own solutions to this binary compilation target. For Microsoft, the solution is Blazor. Blazor is a web framework designed to run client-side in the browser in a WebAssembly-based .NET runtime (Blazor WebAssembly) or Server-side on an ASP.NET Core application server (Blazor Server). WebAssembly is a low-level language with a compact binary… [continue]
Git Basics
The information for this blog post was taken from the content of a Git Basics training at EG’s 2020 QA Retreat. The purpose of this training was to provide a baseline for Automated Test Developers. Often times, automated testers find ourselves performing only a few Git commands. On some projects, we may clone the main project repository but make few commits. On other projects, we may have separate repositories for automated testing code and may be the only user, versus working on a… [continue]
Containerization Fundamentals
Imagine: You are joining a team developing an application as a [test automation engineer|business analyst|developer]. There is a Dev, Stage and Production environment for the application (and the several other applications it integrates with). Dev is very unstable, constantly down and bloated with testing data. Something breaks and an investigation is required to determine if it was bad data, a new code change, or some external dependency. Or worse, nothing happens at all, and Dev just stays broken until the… [continue]
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