Hammerspoon your way to a tidy desktop
I can be a very particular individual. My application windows must be arranged just so… Each in just the right size and in the right position. As my laptop m...
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Belly up to the Bitbar
I have cultivated a decent list of programmers and techies to follow. A week or so ago, one of them retweeted this:
Athena vs Q: Battle of the Data Parsers
What are we fighting for? Here at Traackr, we pull together data from a variety of sources and visualize it in various forms — bar charts, timelines, etc. Ty...
Book Review: SQL Antipatterns
SQL is an interesting yet temperamental tool in the programmer’s kit. You can use it to find amazing insights in your data, but you can watch a poorly forme...
Fresh Baked Roles with Zend Permissions RBAC
As our Traackr application has grown, so has our need to restrict access to features or pieces of features. Recently, our search feature added new filters to...
Yoda conditionals… Change my mind I should?
I had another blog topic in mind but ran across the article “The Mistakes I Made As a Beginner Programmer”. The entire article is worth reading, but this ite...
A pipeline for cleaning up technical debt?
Traackr’s customer facing application is built on top of CakePHP and has accumulated its fair share of technical debt over time. One particular piece of debt...
Book Review: Agile Retrospectives
*cough* *cough* Goodness… It’s a bit dusty around here. Nearly a year of silence will do that. One of the goals our team had last year was to blog more. Thi...
Adventures in Two Factor Authentication
Off we go! Another hack week was upon us, and I had a definite idea in mind. I wanted to add two factor authentication to our web application. Having enabled...
Why I Left Drupal
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