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How to be a Freelance Programmer, Part 1
How to be a Freelance Programmer, Part 1
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I've attended lots of events in my day, and have had to talk to lots of strangers. The conversations usually start off well enough; some delightful repartee about cocktails or an incisive personal anecdote. We laugh. Once the chuckles fade, however, there is a pause, after which comes that well-worn question: So what do you do? For a [...]
WebSockets in Java
WebSockets in Java
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WebSockets have been around for a little while now, but haven't quite reached the point of being mainstream; to some of us old-timers, something like Socket.io seems like the fevered dream of a madman, real-time communication between a web server and a client? What!?! Fear not, gentle readers. It will all be clear soon. A Little [...]
Do It Yourself
Do It Yourself
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Let me alone cause no one wants to be Hanging around with someone messing up like me I guess my way isn't good enough When I try I just keep on wrecking stuff Bouncing Souls, "Argyle" Everyone carries different baggage with them into their chosen field. I don't mean "baggage" in the strictly negative sense; [...]
SASS and Transitional Technologies
SASS and Transitional Technologies
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I was first introduced to SASS early last year. The agency I was working with at the time (Evolution Bureau) began having a series of tech talks amongst the developers where we would introduce each other to different technologies we were excited about; my friend Josh gave a little presentation about his favorite CSS preprocessor. For those who [...]
Welcome to the New RestlessDev Blog! (Part 1)
Welcome to the New RestlessDev Blog! (Part 1)
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Hi everyone! This is the new blog for my company, RestlessDev. In it you'll find random musings about business and technology, Silicon Valley culture and the life inside a small software company, To start off I've imported a few older articles from my previous blog (which has since been taken offline) about a project I did [...]
Flexible Business Processes with CodaServer
Flexible Business Processes with CodaServer
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This is a repost of an article from my old blog about CodaServer. It's being published here for posterity. Most software developers work in the trenches, the corporate IT departments, writing code to help automate a company's various processes. While the Googles get the glory and Facebooks find the fame, our intrepid warriors make life [...]
User Permissions in CodaServer, Part 1
User Permissions in CodaServer, Part 1
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This is a repost of an article from my old blog about CodaServer. It's being published here for posterity. Most business systems implement the concept of "users," those crazy scamps who login and actually use the software. They're pretty important; each has different capabilities within the system and their access levels need to be made [...]
Schema Versioning in CodaServer
Schema Versioning in CodaServer
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This is a repost of an article from my old blog about CodaServer. It's being published here for posterity. Databases have always been a little awkward in the versioning department. A database server is an environment all its own. Different databases can have identical schemas but much different data in them. Some of this data [...]
Creating Crons in CodaServer, Comfortably
Creating Crons in CodaServer, Comfortably
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This is a repost of an article from my old blog about CodaServer. It's being published here for posterity. Benjamin Franklin once said "Lost time is never found again." That is doubly true if that time is when your company's batch processing was supposed to run, and now none of your suppliers are going to [...]
Format Validation in CodaServer
Format Validation in CodaServer
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This is a repost of an article from my old blog about CodaServer. It's being published here for posterity. Validation means many things to many people. It's that feeling you get when you are unconditionally accepted by the one you love, when all the toil and tears finally... Uh... For most of us programmers, validation [...]