October 05, 2020
Azure blob storage is an amazing service that lets you store massive amounts of unstructured data. Working with it can be pretty straightforward at first, but once you start needing better organization of your blobs things can get a bit tricky.
Read MoreMarch 09, 2020
I see specialization on so many different levels. Specialization in a framework, a capability a product. It allows you to get up and running quickly when asked to work with what you are specialized in, but what happens when support for that product or framework is gone? In most cases companies tend not to move on or migrate from it because their employees are specialized and can't pick up new ideas or ways of doing things quickly.
Read MoreJanuary 31, 2020
When tasked with a project that included WordPress as the content management platform, I was a bit concerned as to what we would be able to accomplish. I moved on from WordPress a long time ago thinking that it would never be a developer friendly CMS system. Having come back to it years later it seems like a lot has changed and what I once thought was a subpar CMS system has turned itself into something that I believe can compete with other enterprise level solutions.
Read MoreJuly 17, 2019
It's been a while since I've worked with a true monolithic CMS system like Drupal, but here I am again plugging away and trying to find the best way to work with it (or work around it). I took an absence from using coupled CMS systems for a lot of reasons, first and foremost was the hard dependencies on things like templating, databases and routing. What if I want to choose my database or if server side routing doesn't fulfill my expectations entirely? What if I don't want a denormalized database? As an architect these are all of the things I would love to be able to choose myself, or do I?
Read MoreApril 07, 2019
Git flow is the most widely used git branching strategy out there, it works... for the most part. It gets the job done, but what if we wanted to avoid planned releases, really switch to an agile methodology and be more productive? Then GitHub Flow is the strategy for you.
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