We’ve been equally advocating for AWS and Azure for quite some time, but a recent experience has caused us to lose a lot of confidence in Azure. A small client had 2 VMs in a certain region, and wanted to integrate a SQL Server into their stack. So we walked them through setting up a […]
When bad UI/UX betrays trust.
Hey, wow, this mobile app is so nice, big buttons, clearly labeled. What a great start into building my trust in their attention to detail, quality, and security! Let me try this thing out…. tap, tap, tap… done! Wow, that was so easy, this unnamed corporate entity sure made me a happy camper… *ring, ring* […]
10x Engineer Jokes
On July 11th this tweet thread started, and ever since “10x engineer” has been an ongoing topic of humor & memes on Twitter. The gripes range from what appear to be nothing more than sour grapes, to very legitimate critiques of the itemized list of attributes that follow it. I’ll try to avoid the sour […]
The Unicorn Project, another must read f...
“One day, she is approached by a ragtag bunch of misfits who say they want to overthrow the existing order, to liberate developers, to bring joy back to technology work, and to enable the business to win in a time of digital disruption. To her surprise, she finds herself drawn ever further into this movement, […]
Three hour tour
Hi gurus, if you haven’t read The Phoenix Project yet I hope this tips you over the top. This book makes a tremendous contribution to the Agile/Lean/DevOps movements & articulates most of the challenges we’ve experienced in the world of technology. You may have to Google “Gilligan’s Island” to understand the context of this, but […]
When Agile doesn’t work
Virtually anyone with even a casual interest in sports of any sort realize that success is about skill. Or as I like to say, skillz! Yet, again and again we see technical write-ups about the benefits of some project management formula. As though a philosophy is what creates a “killer app.” How many lines of […]
The cynical entrepreneur
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If you’re pulling out your hair about why you can’t process posted payload data to your php script you may be getting 301 redirected by Apache even though you didn’t ask it to. Try this in your .htaccess: DirectorySlash Off RewriteRule ^(nameOfDirectoryYoureTryingToGet|another|another)$ $1/index.php The first line stops the redirect, but, depending on your host, you […]
getPlatformForHost
Remote Development plugin for VSCode. We hit this error on one of the recent updates & tried downgrading, which didn’t work because the plugin got corrupted. We got it working by upgrading back to the current version, removing the plugin (make sure you open a workspace that isn’t using it before you uninstall), downgrading to […]
Develop “The Cloud” 2019
Wow, just wow has development been changing rapidly. More & more we’re being asked to develop “on the cloud.” It’s incredibly ironic, just a few years back developers were being gobbled up by off-the-shelf companies to produce one-size-fits-all packages to be marketed via too-often unscrupulous sales-folks, that have no qualms about over-promising and under delivering. […]