Notes Southwest Airlines' Digital Transformation Fast Company posted an article about Southwest Airlines’ digital transformation that talks about the flight management application I work on.
Web Development Hosting ASP.NET Core applications on Heroku using Docker Traditionally the way to host applications on Heroku is with a Buildpack, but I wanted to try hosting an ASP.NET Core application on Heroku using Docker.
App Development Working with NSNotificationCenter in iOS 10 While using the iOS 10 SDK and Xcode 8, I have found working with NSNotificationCenter, now named just NotificationCenter, to be a much more pleasing experience.
Notes Crackpot WWDC 2016 wishlist Wild speculation of what will be announced at an Apple event is always fun. Here are my wild, crackpot ideas for WWDC 2016.
Apple Watch Changing the Apple Watch interaction paradigm The digital crown is one of the defining features of the Apple Watch; however, it’s underutilized as just a scroll wheel for the screen and picker controls. The limited functionality of the digital...
Vintage Computing G4 Cube The 2000 MacWorld New York keynote is a classic Steve Jobs keynote which includes some great segments:
Mac OS X Upgrading to OS X 10.11 El Capitan OS X 10.11 shipped earlier this week, and I haven’t come across any bad experience stories on the Internet (it sounds like a solid release of OS X), so it’s upgrade weekend for...
Power Tools Comparing mailbox folders in Python I recently moved email hosts and needed to copy over a large folder of archived messages. Since I had both my old account and new account in Mail.app, I did the naive “Copy...
App Development The Udacity iOS Development Nanodegree I started auditing the first course in the Udacity Swift/iOS Nanodegree to get a feel for the concept, because I like the Nanodegree pitch:
FreeBSD BSD Resources for New Users Yesterday, Digital Ocean launched support for FreeBSD on their cloud platform. They also launched a lot of FreeBSD content on their tutorials website, including a seven-part series that starts with A Comparative Introduction...
DevOps Automation instead of Documentation when Provisioning Servers Chef and Puppet each have a bit of a learning curve, and if you only need to provision a few servers, you might think the effort to learn either isn’t worth it. You...
Power Tools How to create a bootable flash drive on OS X On OS X, a few built-in terminal commands can be used to create a bootable flash drive from an ISO disk image (like a that of a Linux distro) instead of installing new...
Notes Big Ruby Conf 2014 Notes Confreaks now has the Big Ruby 2014 videos available for viewing. Harry Potter and the Legacy Codebase is a good watch. “Think of working with legacy code like an archaeologist.”
Web Development Fixing 404 Errors in Apache and NGINX I have reorganized the structure of this website so all blog posts are now under the /posts directory, leaving the root clean for other pages or groups of content (maybe photos). While the...
Web Development PHP Composer on OS X Mountain Lion OS X 10.8 has PHP 5.3 installed with CLI support by default, so there isn’t any extra installation needed for Composer, a dependency manager for PHP, to be installed globally on a Mac....
Power Tools Command-line Tricks I’m a fan of doing work in the terminal. Here are about a dozen one-liners that I keep around.
DevOps Server Foundation for Ubuntu LTS This is a guide roughly outlining how I would manually setup and configure a server after the first boot up. I tend to go with Ubuntu 12.04 LTS since it will be supported...
Web Development Mobile Redirection with NGINX Our company website automatically redirects visitors on mobile devices to its mobile counterpart. I was initially handling the checking/redirecting in the Ruby on Rails application using an implementation that is like the one...