Recently had a project where I needed to get a CRUD admin up and running quick. My go to framework for CRUD is Django Admin. However Python/Django isn’t always an option for various technical or political reasons. In this case … Continue reading
Ran into a situation this week where I needed to fix and slightly customize a dependency of a dependency. This was for a Laravel project that uses Composer to manage dependencies. Since I’m using Composer everything in /vendor is managed by Composer … Continue reading
With MySQL you can opt to connect to the database using an encrypted connection. This option is important to consider on AWS if you are using RDS for your MySQL database. The network between your EC2 server and the RDS server … Continue reading
The concept of a DBA – database administrator, has practically gone out of style as a full time job. DBA work, if it is being done, is handled by someone or something else, perhaps in a more vanilla way that … Continue reading
After working with dozens of REST, SOAP and ‘ad-hoc’ web services / APIs I’ve noticed a similar set of design problems by companies big and small. One gotcha I almost always see left out of an API is an easy way … Continue reading
Everywhere I look I see software rapidly falling into obsolescence that will need to be re-written soon. A good example is how rapidly JavaScript (ECMAscript) is evolving. In a few years nobody will get excited about maintaining a ECMA5 code … Continue reading
Topic explored: Someday soon developers will only need a basic Chrome Book and a wifi connection to do their work. No software will be installed locally other than a browser. I’m not so sure this trend will pan out across … Continue reading
The Django framework abstracts the nitty gritty details of SQL with its Model library (the M in MVC). It is straight forward for standard lookups involving WHERE clauses. 10% of the time I need it to do something fancy like a … Continue reading
I have been told “there is no such thing as green field development”. While that statement is false for the hobbyist developer, in the business world it is nearly true. Those who code for a hobby or for pure enjoyment … Continue reading
Grunt is a front end build tool I’ve used on the last several projects. It handles CSS / JavaScript minification, concatenation, and linting really well. Some of my legacy projects use a combination of bash and Yahoo UI Compressor, which … Continue reading
