Test Driven Development Conversion
The concept of unit testing is not new, however it has only gained popularity in the last 10 years or so. When I was asked about it for the first time, I was unsure where it would fit in to my develop...
College Basketball in 2013
I am a huge sports fan. I particularly love college sports. We don't have any pro sports teams in Alabama. So, we take our college sports very seriously. Like many sports fans I have watched the NCAA ...
The Web We Lost
I was reading Chris Shiflett's blog and he mentioned a blog post about the web the way it used to be before Facebook and Twitter. I almost tweeted it. Then I thought, nah, a good old fashion blog post...
Reliable Delivery
There is plenty to read about continuous delivery in terms of rolling out code. In my journey to be a better leader and manager, I have realized there is something we are doing badly. While we are con...
Becoming a Better Manager
I have typically blogged on this site about things I have learned in the webapplication world that may help others. In the last year or so, I have beenlearning a lot of new things. Most of them are no...
Developers and Entropy
This is a selfish blog post. I read a great blog post titled "Why You Need To Hire Great Developers" but I could not find it in my browser history or chat history. It talks about entropy creators vers...
Lock Wait Timeout Errors or Leave Your Data on the Server
If you use MySQL with InnoDB (most everyone) then you will likely see this error at some point. There is some confusion sometimes about what this means. Let me try and explain it.Let's say we have a c...
Scaling 101 - We are Failing the Next Generation
The other day Twitter was down and I had no place to comment on Twitter being down. This got us to talking about scaling at work. I was reminded of the recent slides posted from Instagram about their ...
Stop comparing stuff you don't understand
I normally don't do this. When I see someone write a blog post I don't agree with, I often just dismiss it and go on. But, this particular one caught my attention. It was titled PHP vs Node.js: Yet An...
PHP Coding Standards
Update: Matthew Weier O'Phinney, one of the core members of the group, has cleared up the naming history in the comments.During the /dev/hell podcast at Tek12, someone asked the guys their opinion abo...