Historically, I used a dynamic publishing engine to host this site. The engine would reside on a server that I was responsible for maintaining – both security patches and uptime. Recently though, I...
Ive received questions from readers wondering about the résumé link on my page. I created the résumé using JSON Resume with the hope that it would make it easier to keep it up-to-date. I also love ...
It is impossible to resize an EBS volume. However, by creating a copy of the volume that is either larger or smaller, you can simulate a resize. Doing this with EBS volumes can be challenging, espe...
Excellent Venn diagram describing the tradeoffs of the classic project management dilemma (author unknown).
Background Heroku powered this website for the past several years. I had no problems with the platform. Deployments were reliable and fast. However, when the time came to add SSL support to the sit...
In part one of this series, we set up the Google API and created a simple class that interacts with the API to return the most popular articles from Google Analytics. We can make a few enhancements...
Adding a page that lists the most popular articles from your website using data from Google Analytics is a relatively straightforward process. Recently, I added this feature to this site. This arti...
When I did the redesign of this site, I wanted to also do some things that had been on my mind for a while, including combining and minifying my javascript and css resources. By doing so, I hoped t...
I encountered this list some time ago and thought it would be great to repost here as a reminder of how sometimes our thinking can be distorted. Filtering: You take the negative details and magnif...
Earlier today, I had a need to deactivate a SQL Server login. Before I did that, I wanted to find out which databases the user was allowed to access. Rather than opening each of the 35 databases on...