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05/14/2019

How To Use Slack To Maintain A Team Reading List

Having a clean and focused reading channel in Slack allows us a sanctioned place for in-depth discussion and news sharing.

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05/09/2019

Restrict Who Can Push to Matching Branches on Github

On GitHub, you can enable branch restrictions allowing only certain users, teams, or apps to be able to push to a protected branch.

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05/07/2019

Fixup your Code Reviews with git rebase --autosquash

Git rebase flows result in clean history. Squashing code review fixups into the PR make it hard to see what changed. Rietta devs use --autosquash instead.

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05/02/2019

Why do teams use points to Estimate? - Interview with Lore Hamilton

Grab a coffee and listen in while the Rietta team explores why using point estimation can help round out your team's planning process in development.

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04/29/2019

Are you accidentally storing private data in plain text?

Learn how to prudently minimize the collection of passwords, authentication tokens, and customer private data in your debug logs to protect your company from legal liability.

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04/25/2019

How to Get Fast, Accurate Code Reviews on your Pull Request

Pull requests are being merged with bugs or not being reviewed at all. How do teams perform fast and accurate code reviews? They make the review easy!

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04/22/2019

How to Use git reset

Git reset is a powerful command utilized to unstage changes.

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04/18/2019

New Interview on Drifting Ruby

Recent Drifting Ruby Episode #183 interview with Frank Rietta, Web Application Security Architect.

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04/15/2019

How to calculate age in MySQL

While PostgreSQL has a built in age command, MySQL does not. How do we figure out somebody's age in MySQL?

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02/08/2019

Applying Agile and Security in Software Development Public Appearance at KSU

Frank will be presenting Applying Agile and Security in Software Development at the IS General Speaker Series #3 on 2/28/2018 at KSU in Marietta.

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