Yeah, it finally happened. I knew it would happen sooner than later. The power of being a cloud engineer is having a more price-sensitive VPS solution. My original timetable was […]
Learning Django
Ever since learning about the existence of Django, Python’s MVC framework, I’ve wanted to learn how to use it. By now, I’ve played with quite a few other MVC frameworks […]
A Short 12-Mile Bike Ride
People who know me know that there is more to my life than software and gardening. In the warmer months, I try to go on daily bike rides! On days […]
Maintaining a Ruby on Rails App
I’ve used a few different kinds of languages and frameworks. Adding new features to a Ruby on Rails application has been really easy. In fact, sitting down to glance at […]
Learning AWS
Since September 2023, I’ve looked at thousands of job postings (I’ve applied to over 1,000…). I would venture to say that, definitely for full stack related jobs (and back end […]
Laravel and React
Laravel is not new to me, despite my resume possibly suggesting that. I wrote a CMS app using the Laravel Blade architecture back in 2016. At the time, I wasn’t […]
PHP Drops in TIOBE Index
When I learned that PHP significantly dropped in the TIOBE index back in April 2024, I was not surprised. Over the past year, having seen how the job market is […]
Backyard Garden Softscape
For those of us in the gardening community, there is a distinct difference between the “hardscape” and the “softscape”. The hardscape is all that big, heavy, “not alive” stuff: wood, […]
Mini Yii App Thoughts
Okay, I’ve played with a few frameworks now. CalPERS had its own custom PHP-based MVC framework. Then I played with Laravel and Ruby on Rails. But nothing prepared me for […]
Deploying my first Ruby on Rails App
OMG, I never would have thought that deploying a Ruby on Rails app would have been so incredibly difficult! Building the app and testing it on my laptop was very […]