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In an effort to make the static site workflow a little less manual, I’ve created a little web-service to automate things a bit. Here’s how it works: Edit posts/pages/layouts etc with prose.io Github web-hook hits my service, triggering a build. The build stage looks like this: ...

This post caught my eye: Why you need a home lab to keep your job. Your boss won't pay for training, so your partner has to put up with servers at home What intrigued me, as a web developer, was not setting up servers with the latest and greatest hardware. It was the question of what exactly the ‘Home Lab’ looks like for a web developer. I have a number of things cooking in my home lab but I’m thinking I really should have more. These are non-paying projects, built for fun or necessity or just to develop my skills with tools I don’t use at work. Here’s a rundown of a couple of them: ...

I’ve been learning Haskell. It’s been a very interesting experience to learn to think in the Haskell way, but I have been unsure whether it will actually have any practical benefit in my day to day work. ...

I have a feeling that the current age could be described as the dawn of the open-source model. It’s not just software that can benefit from a workflow that is distributed, versioned and collaborative. And it’s not only “open” products that benefit from these tools. Here’s a great example of this at work in the latest Mars rover: ...

There seems to be certain mystique surrounding declarative programming and how it applies to the real world. There are not many technologies in the average web programmer toolkit that are truly declarative. ...

Librarians Helping Their Communities with Personal Digital Archiving ...

I’ve moved my blog over to Github Pages, and it’s working out pretty well so far. I’m using Jekyll to generate it, which works awesome for a simple blog like this. ...

The pattern you already use MVC has long been the defacto standard for building web and desktop applications. There are many variations on the theme, but I think the acronym is missing one component that is already an important part of any MVC application… ...

Finder makes it a bit difficult to get the full path to a file; like when you’re pasting it into config files or Terminal. So here’s a little script that makes it this easy: Browse in Finder, right click a file or folder and choose ‘Copy Path to Clipboard’. ...

This past weekend my co-worker, Jon, and I participated in the Global Day of Code Retreat, an event that focuses on two things: Test-Driven Development (TDD) and Pair Programming. Neither of which are exactly new to me, but in my day-to-day work there are only a handful of projects that use TDD, and we basically never do pair-programming. We collaborate, but never really in front of the same computer for any length of time. ...