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Fred Mastropasqua
Agile, Scrum, Product, Religion, Game Development and more

Oct 3
Oct 3 Upgrading my MacBook Pro 17" 200GB Hard Drive to 320GB with Boot Camp partition (using VMFusion)

Fred Mastro
Apple/Mac, Computers, Operating Systems

Feb 3
Feb 3 Consolidate Excel Sheets to one Sheet using VBA

Fred Mastro
Code Snippets, Programming, VBA

Jan 28
Jan 28 Team Foundation TFS 2010/2008 Deleting / Solving Multiple Workspace Problem

Fred Mastro
Developer Tools, Troubleshooting, Visual Studio

Jan 24
Jan 24 VB.Net Strip Numeric Characters from an Alpha-Numeric String

Fred Mastro
Code Snippets, Programming, VB-NET

Jan 12
Jan 12 Am I a good programmer?

Fred Mastro
About Me, Personal, Programming

Nov 4
Nov 4 View Speed Football - Super Speed with non Speed Items

Fred Mastro
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My Rare Personal Blog Postings

Featured
Current State - 2020
Nov 21, 2020
Current State - 2020
Nov 21, 2020

Wow, has it really been three years since my last blog post? So much has happened since then. With the help of some great investors, Clearly Agile grow to 80 employees pre-covid. Now we’re down to mid 60’s but still, crazy growth. Back in 2017 Clearly Agile was around 6 employees. Now it’s on Inc’s fastest growing companies in the U.S.

Nov 21, 2020
Another Real World BDD Example (#2)
Jan 25, 2017
Another Real World BDD Example (#2)
Jan 25, 2017

This is my second real world BDD example that we’ve written in the past here at Clearly Agile. I’ve been given permission to share this piece of code from the client.

My previous example you can view here, which is around languages.
In this example, we have a scenario where a user can create something called a “Project” and it has to have a correct “Open Date”. Open Date is when the Project is complete and it’s calculated off a collection of Tasks.

Jan 25, 2017
Deja Vu Text Adventure with 1 Hour Sprints
Jan 23, 2017
Deja Vu Text Adventure with 1 Hour Sprints
Jan 23, 2017

Ever since I was a kid, I've always had an interest in developing games. With the strong indie game development over the last few years, it's possible for anyone now to build and be successful with an indie game. 

Jan 23, 2017
What is truth?
Jan 19, 2017
What is truth?
Jan 19, 2017

Started a series called the Truth Project by a Dr. Del Tackett and it's been very profound. If you haven't heard of it, check it out here: http://www.thetruthproject.org/ 

There are many questions asked and it's a thought provoking video. One thing I definitely can see, and I agree with, is that Truth is not variable. We can't all have our own Truth's based on our beliefs. There is one Truth. The truth is a fact and based on reality. It's not based on perspective or opinion or variable in any way.

Jan 19, 2017
Mentioned in the Best of Tampa Bay book
Jan 19, 2017
Mentioned in the Best of Tampa Bay book
Jan 19, 2017

Clearly Agile, the company I own and operate, was featured in a recent book "Best of Tampa Bay."  It talks about our early days, and it's nice to be mentioned alongside other great companies and locations in the area.  http://globalvillage.world/proudly-americas/north-america/united-states-of-america/florida/tampa/ 

Jan 19, 2017
Moved my site over to Squarespace from Wordpress and it was easy
Jan 19, 2017
Moved my site over to Squarespace from Wordpress and it was easy
Jan 19, 2017

It's that time again where I move my personal site over from a previous engine and try and keep all my old links working.

This time I went from Wordpress to Squarespace and have to say that the process was super easy! Squarespace has built-in import tool just for the process.

Jan 19, 2017
Featured in the Tampa Bay Times
Dec 11, 2016
Featured in the Tampa Bay Times
Dec 11, 2016

We were featured in the Tampa Bay Times on December 11th 2016. 

Fred Mastropasqua and Edmund Gorski started their software company, ClearlyAgile, from the desks they rented at CoWork Ybor.

"As our company started growing, we realized we needed to create some kind of workplace culture," said Mastropasqua, president of ClearlyAgile. "It was hard to learn the kind of work we do from home." He said they liked the laid back, but creative, atmosphere there. Plus CoWork Ybor is attached to the Blind Tiger Cafe, a perk for meetings and for free drip coffee.

Dec 11, 2016
REAL WORLD EXAMPLE OF BDD #1 - BEHAVIOR DRIVEN DEVELOPMENT. AGILE ENGINEERING PRACTICES.
Oct 10, 2016
REAL WORLD EXAMPLE OF BDD #1 - BEHAVIOR DRIVEN DEVELOPMENT. AGILE ENGINEERING PRACTICES.
Oct 10, 2016

If you're not familiar with BDD, Behavior Driven Development, it's a way of writing requirements that can be automatically turned into code for agile developers to automated testing of that feature. Read more about it here. This post is about specific examples.

However, I gotten tired of seeing the same examples everywhere. The "As a math idiot..." ones and lack of real world uses. I thought I would share some of the real world examples of Behavior Driven Development patterns, or BDD. I've scrubbed the examples from any client information. 

Oct 10, 2016
Wife’s wedding dress stolen from the UPS driver's hands
Feb 3, 2016
Wife’s wedding dress stolen from the UPS driver's hands
Feb 3, 2016

Over the last year my fiancé, at the time (wife now), and I saved up what we could and threw ourselves a wedding. Didn’t ask anyone for money, just invited everyone that we could afford too. Yes, we had some help in some areas with some things form loved ones but not out of asking for it but out of them offering. One of those was my wife’s wedding dress. Shown in the picture. So we got married and went off to the honeymoon. Israel and then Prague. After we got back she sent her dress to off to a service to get cleaned and sealed. So it could be preserved. Weeks later she got the delivery and low and behold…. it wasn’t her dress. She was pissed! They had mailed her someone else’s dress.

Feb 3, 2016
Dec 28, 2015
Building .NET on a Mac with Visual Studio Code
Dec 28, 2015

This is a great article on building a .Net application on the MAC OS with the new ASP.NET 5, cross-platform framework.

Dec 28, 2015
Changed your Windows 10 Background with the Classical "Old" Desktop Background Screen/Control Panel Window
Nov 27, 2015
Changed your Windows 10 Background with the Classical "Old" Desktop Background Screen/Control Panel Window
Nov 27, 2015

If you're like me and you used to use the Picture desktop background option, you'll find that in Windows 10, it doesn't look at the sub-folders. The new Personalization screen just doesn't have those options. I really dislike those screens.

Nov 27, 2015
On Google Hangout I appear offline to my friends
Jul 10, 2015
On Google Hangout I appear offline to my friends
Jul 10, 2015

If you uncheck the option “Show when you were last online” Google Hangouts will then show you as “offline” to your friends.

Jul 10, 2015
Jul 10, 2015
Can’t close Angular Bootstrap Modal–Stays Gray
Jul 10, 2015

There is something wrong with Angular 1.4 and angular-bootstrap 0.12, 0.13 that doesn’t for the close animation for modals. The modal closes but the background stays gray. Found a couple of open tickets on it.

Jul 10, 2015
I'll be speaking at these PMI events
Apr 20, 2015
I'll be speaking at these PMI events
Apr 20, 2015

I’ll be speaking at a few PMI events coming up here in the next few days.

Apr 20, 2015
Apr 17, 2015
Angular BlockUI Not Showing Up
Apr 17, 2015
Apr 17, 2015
Apr 4, 2015
Switched over my site to another blog engine some images not updated yet
Apr 4, 2015
Apr 4, 2015
Apr 3, 2015
2 Alternatives for Native iOS Apps using C#
Apr 3, 2015
Apr 3, 2015
Mar 23, 2015
Nikon P900 83x Optical Zoom Camera Real Example
Mar 23, 2015
Mar 23, 2015
Mar 23, 2015
How to Run an Effective Retrospective Meeting
Mar 23, 2015
Mar 23, 2015
Nov 22, 2014
Properly Install Mac Yosemite OS X 11.3 On Windows with VirtualBox
Nov 22, 2014
Nov 22, 2014

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