Read – Organizing Express For Better Productivity
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To Framework or Not Framework…
I’ve had a few interesting conversations recently highlighting & confirming my perspective on software development frameworks. 1.) Do you know Zend? I was asked if I know Symphony and my response was “sort of”. They responded (in a snarky tone) “well, you really should know Symphony & Zend because we have a massive job upgrading …
CSRF Tokens, What They Are, What They’re Good For, and Why…
Background 2 junior coworkers asked my boss about a statement I made regarding CSRF tokens and web app security. My boss was unable to answer that question but didn’t refer to me. So, there was a bunch of confusion, miscommunication, and duplicate work. This is the internal documentation I wrote to answer that question. I …
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Business Analysis & Scaling
I’m thinking about business analysis and scaling businesses for a meeting. On the one hand, you don’t want to build The Titanic for a little weekend fishing trip. On the other hand, you don’t want to go out in a row boat only to learn the sea is too rough; you’d end up in deep …
Read – Angular vs. React: A Complete Comparison
I found this article quite interesting. I’m quite keen to work in TypeScript for strict typing and compiled JS. But it seems React is far more common and thus you’d assume the pool of developer candidates is greater.
Server Setup
Multiple subdomains reverse proxy’ing to various Python venv’s and other app ‘containers’ https://serverfault.com/questions/195611/how-do-i-redirect-subdomains-to-a-different-port-on-the-same-server
Changes Coming at Work
For those who don’t know: My employer, ITS Consulting, is a consulting company; they hire out to other businesses to solve IT/tech challenges. In 2016 I was in a near-fatal crash, while cycling home from work, that has left me with multiple challenges and thus far I’ve only been able to work part time at …
Video as a Training Tool
What does one do on a boring, cold, snowy Thurs night? Create dev on-boarding/training tools of course.
Web Apps Should Always Have a Log
I’m working on an event log for a client (of my employer): At a bare minimum, an event/security log offloads some of the responsibility to the user. If you show fail and successful login attempts hopefully a user will catch when their own account has been compromised even if you can’t (I.E. their password was …
Go/No-Go For New Jobs
What Is This? This post/page is a compiled, concise list of lessons I’ve learned over the course of my career. I’ll regularly come back & update this to a living, ever changing, document. Questions To Ask In 1, 2, & 5 years what would make this successful or unsuccessful? i.e. What things would …