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Taking Your Eyes Off The Road 21 Jun 2013 | 06:00 pm
Source: http://www.flickr.com/photos/viernest/3380560365/ About a year ago, I had a wreck. I totaled my car. I took my eyes off the road to look at my son in the back seat. I put two of my children i...
Being a Better Manager: Communication 6 May 2013 | 06:17 pm
As I have worked on being a better manager, I have been trying to determine what our strengths and weakness are as a development team. Communication is once place I think we can do a better job. The ...
Test Driven Development Conversion 22 Apr 2013 | 06:00 pm
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 9 Apr 2013 | 09:51 pm
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 20 Mar 2013 | 04:34 am
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 11 Mar 2013 | 05:00 pm
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 10 Mar 2013 | 07:00 am
I have typically blogged on this site about things I have learned in the web application world that may help others. In the last year or so, I have been learning a lot of new things. Most of them are ...
Developers and Entropy 14 Jul 2012 | 01:07 am
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 27 Jun 2012 | 02:12 pm
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...
Scaling 101 - We are Failing the Next Generation 26 Jun 2012 | 10:01 am
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 ...
