I’ve committed to myself to finish a book that I’ve been taking notes on for a few years. “Different Things Vary” reflects the experiences and techniques I’ve gathered from four decades as a developer in the Tech Industry. It will cover everything from coding techniques to going out on your...

When creating new products, adding a simple blog to document concepts and changes is a frequent need. In the early stages you’re making at most about two dozen posts a year, usually coincidental to a new release. So it’d take a couple years before one outgrew a ‘simple’ solution. What...

I’ve been hosting my Rails projects on Heroku for years now. It’s a great service for a developer because it insulates you from a lot of the IT/Operations issues involved with deploying and managing a Rails app. But it can get expensive, especially when you want to start layering on...

SecretLabs “Titan” Gaming Chair My twenty year old (!) Herman-Miller Aeron chair was falling apart so it was finally time for a new office chair. A direct replacement would run over $1000 and that wasn’t in the cards. By chance I started seeing ads online for “Secret Labs” chairs. These...

Microsoft is buying Github. Ugh. From a pure “technology” standpoint, this looks fine. Microsoft offers a lot of money and a big developer base to make Git the dominant version control system. And it’s a solid power move by Microsoft to buy up the dominant player in the space. It...