8 Tips to help you work better with Git
Git is a very powerful version control system. It can be a little bit daunting to try to learn everything around it, so most people just ..
Realtors and Closed Source Software: What They Have in Common
What do Realtors have to do with closed source software? The answer may seem to be “basically nothing.” After all, the real estate market ..
Secure Your Network with Pfsense Firewall
Whether you’re running a small home network or working in an enterprise environment, it’s easy to find fault with consumer grade routers ..
Using AWS EFS to Replace Complex Clustered Filesystem Setups
During my career, I have seen many different ways of creating shared storage for multiple web servers or database servers. It’s not always ..
How Cloud9 Kept Me on Track after a Hardware Failure
Earlier this year, the GPU on my MacBook failed about 2 days before a big project deadline. I needed to code, and Cloud9 saved me.
Repositories Are at the Center of Development and Production
Have you ever tried to build a new development project without the support of a version control system? It sucks.
Ensuring Parity Between Development and Production Environments
“It Works for me.”Those are the three most frustrating words a bug reporter can hear.
Adding search functionality to your application
When your application needs search functionality, you can follow the path of least resistance and implement simple search via your backend, ..
Wercker: Saving My Sanity Since 2016
For the better part of the past decade I have been a programmer for every type of company under the sun, but there’s nothing I’ve ..
DevOps like It’s 1999 with Travis CI
This is the third installment of my “DevOps like It’s 1999” series, where I attempt to integrate modern DevOps tools into a 20 year ..
DevOps like It’s 1999 with Keen.io
Anyone who has ever met me knows that online text-based roleplaying games, called Multi-User Dungeons (or MUDs for short), are the entire ..