Code rant

TL:DR Successive, well intentioned, changes to architecture and technology throughout the lifetime of an application can lead to a fragmente...

I’m on a sales drive. I want to move away from daily-rate contracting, and focus on full-lifecycle project delivery. I’ve created a new webs...

TL:DR You can not observe a developer without altering their behavior. First a story. Several years ago I worked on a largish project...

I’m working on an exciting new project at the moment. The main UI element is a management console built with AngularJS that communicates wi...

I haven’t contracted through an agency for a long time, but I thought I’d write up my experiences from almost ten years of working as an IT ...

Docker is a lightweight virtualization technology for Linux that promises to revolutionize the deployment and management of distributed app...

I’ve just started looking at Docker . It’s a cool new technology that has the potential to make the management and deployment of distributed...

Every GitHub repository comes with its own wiki. This is a great place to put the documentation for your project. What isn’t clear from the ...

The 2001 agile manifesto was an attempt to replace rigid, process and management heavy, development methodologies with a more human and soft...

Sometimes you want to set the state of your project back to a previous commit, but keep the history of all the preceding changes. You want t...