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
In programming hell the keyboard layout changes every day. The Internet is laggy. The backlog is so long, it can’t even load. The control and shift keys only work half the time. You may only use pico as your editor. … Continue reading
I recently had a reader ask me if they should attend a coding academy because they want to get into programming. Here is my answer: There are many success stories involving code schools. In fact my grandmother was one of … 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
In PHP placing an @ symbol in front of an expression (variable or function call) tells php to suppress any error messages that expression generates. I find this to be a handy piece of syntactic sugar. When used correctly the … Continue reading
Wolfram Alpha has always been a interesting if not quirky ‘intelligent search engine’. It can do things like: Take derivatives – d(ln(x))/dx Generate star charts Show the position of the International Space Station Get detailed nutrition facts Stock analysis (Facebook) Routlette Payoffs … Continue reading
No matter what versioning system you are using (Git, Mercurial, Subversion, TFS, CVS), a useful commit message is just as valuable as adhering to coding style and leaving behind useful comments. Why care about commit messages? If you ever need … Continue reading
Is the number of issues in your backlog into the triple digits? Angry customers, bugs that have you tangled in spaghetti code, the talking head just changed the spec AGAIN!!!… and now the President comes to your desk and says … Continue reading
Software professionals should be aware of the limitations that come with the current trend of building asynchronous heavy web applications. We are seeing a surge in serious and large scale JavaScript applications at the enterprise level. Here is a list … Continue reading
