All posts by Nick Korbel
Booked Tips: Tablet Display
Booked includes a lot of features that you may not know about. In this article we’ll talk about the tablet display, which is perfect for showing reservation information next to a resource. A good example is a tablet mounted outside a conference room, but this can be used for any type of resources. Here’s an…
Booked Tips: Stopping Squatters
Booked is configurable in so many ways. In this article we’ll review how to release reservations if the case of no-shows.
Status Report Theater
It’s been 7 months since I’ve written a status report. Of course I have thoughts on alternatives to this obsolete ritual.
Booked Tips: Controlling Reservation Display Label
Booked is configurable in so many ways. In this article we’ll review how to control the text shown for a reservation on all of the schedule and calendar views.
Learning how to modern web dev
I’m neck deep in learning ES6, React, Typescript, Node and all the billions of pieces that are a part of this “ecosystem”. I think I’m going to post some of the things that I learn along the way here. Most of it will probably be obvious if you’ve been working with these technologies for a…
Packaging a Node Express App
I’m not sure how most of the JavaScript world is building, packaging, and deploying their applications. We’re using Yarn instead of npm, but neither tool provides a simple way to zip up and version your app (unless you’re publishing to npm, that is). Here’s what worked for me (based on Yarn 1.15.2). As with everything…
I am not the manager you are looking for
Over the past 5 or so years managing software teams, I’ve come to realize that I’m not the manager that some organizations want. That’s ok with me.
Ice Cream (cycle) Time!
We all recognize the problems of large batches in the real world, but so few of us recognize those same problems facing our software teams.
On Commitment
I have a different definition than most leaders when I talk about “commitment”.
Oh no… GitFlow
It seems like every team I’ve worked with in the past few years follows some form of GitFlow. At the very least, they use feature branches and pull requests to perform code reviews. How we got here The creation of distributed source control systems made the pull request model possible. Distributed source control systems emerged…