Building a PHP Command Line App with Docker
At The Graide Network, we needed to automate a bunch of reminder emails and text...
Knowing Your Startup's Technical Maturity Level
As a startup developer I’m always trying to strike a balance between pragmatism and optimization....
Knowing When Your Business is Ready to Launch
I can’t tell you how many conversations I’ve had with entrepreneurs who fit into the...
Continuous Integration on a Budget
Since I wrote this in September, 2015, continuous integration has become pretty much the standard...
Security Tips for Engineers at Early Stage Startups
Since publishing this post in August, 2015 I’ve become somewhat fanatical about getting my company’s...
Five Takeaways from Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship
I first published this post in May 2015, but Clean Code is timeless. If you’re...
Roadblocks to Project Estimation
When I first published this in April, 2015, we were trying to obsessively estimate our...
Peopleware: All Technology Problems are Really People Problems
Two years ago I read Peopleware for the first time and wrote this blog post....
Trello as a Reading List
I first started using Trello and published this post in January, 2015, and since then...
Keeping Goals Manageable
It’s time for New Year’s Resolutions, which means it’s time for at least 127,000,000 people in...