I recently wrote an article for Josh Software, a software consultancy that I began working for in April of this year. It's about the differences between React.js and Vue.js (version 2) and explores those differences from a variety of perspectives for the

I happen to like Apple's Safari browser, and I'd like to use it when developing stuff with Vue.js. I ran into a problem with this, however: Safari would cache the response from the live-reload development server on localhost, so that when I made

It's always a good practice to keep your authentication/authorization details out of your code (or anything that'll be shared with others via source control, etc.). So when working with AWS and Terraform, how do you securely tell it what your AWS credentials are?

I recently updated XCode on my MacOS Mojave hackintosh, and to my surprise thereafter, was unable to install a version of the MySQL2 gem for a project I was working on. The solution ultimately was to install a package I didn't know existed. When

When creating OS installation media, a lot of people suggest using various third party tools, such as Etcher and others. However, it's fairly easy just using dd (Data Dump) on any Unix-like OS to do the same thing. Zero Out the DiskInsert a USB

Caddy is a great HTTP/2 server written in Go that you can set up rather easily on MacOS to serve static assets over localhost. This is a quick how-to showing how I personally have it set up for development/testing purposes. Install ItI

Hackintosh enthusiasts often have to fix small but important missing or malfunctioning features of their OS after they get their first successful build, and key to that is knowing your hardware. And instead of being outright lied to by MacOS and its built-in tools,

If you tried to delete a Storage Space via the built-in Windows GUI and it just hangs forever, try this PowerShell method for quickly deleting it so you can re-use your drives. I recently set up a Windows 10 Storage Space - basically a

Say you want to download everything in a certian directory that's shown via HTTP (like nginx directory listing). wget can help you get the job done. For example, let's say you have http://somehost/ISO/, and in that directory are subdirectories for linux, bsd,

For over a year now, my development environment has been a mix of Microsoft's Windows Subsystem for Linux, and the more often-used (at least in my industry) MacOS environment. Each has its virtues, and each has problems. This article discusses reasons for switching away

While at Railsconf 2015 I was fortunate to have the opportunity to co-present on Trailblazer, a new way to structure Ruby on Rails applications, with its creator, Nick Sutterer. Nick is a great guy, and a lot of fun to work with. For some

I had the privilege of presenting at Lonestar Ruby Conference in 2013 on the topic of Ruby application servers. To many Ruby developers, this may sound like a rather esoteric and useless topic, but as I show in this presentation, your choice of application

Ruby on Rails version 4 released, by total luck, the very same day I gave this presentation at "Austin on Rails", a local Ruby on Rails meetup in Austin, TX. This presentation covers tons of changes and features between versions 3 and 4 of

New Relic's "Request Queuing" metric is an often misunderstood and badly named figure that often confuses and worries application developers and DevOps engineers. In 2013, after receiving the umpteenth support request worried about this metric while working with Engine Yard's Application Support team, I

This article was originally published at the now-defunct "H-Online" (a British subsidiary of a German technology publication) and covers new features in the popular Ruby on Rails web application framework that debuted as part of the version 3.1 release. Original Location Archived PDF:

Originally published at the now-defunct "H-Online" (a British subsidiary of a German technology publication), this article describes changes in the very popular Ruby on Rails web application framework going from version 2.3 to version 3.0. Original Location Archived PDF: Page 1Archived PDF: