On Sunday we celebrated 30 years of the PHP programming language. It was kind of cool to see some people’s stories of their journeys with PHP come up on social media. I was actually writing PHP for most of the day on Sunday – trying to fix an issue with a WordPress plugin – so […]
Whether they’ve written it or not, I’m willing to bet that nearly every developer with a certain amount of experience under their belt has a rant ready to go about Agile. As such, I doubt anything I say here is particularly new. It’s just my personal take. I often say I love Agile. That shouldn’t […]
Over on FantasyHockeySim.com, specifically with the National Simulated Hockey League, we have the concept of a Supplemental Draft. This is a player draft that gives access to veteran players for teams who have historically not performed well. How do we define “not performed well” though? From the league rulebook: “Teams with a regular season winning […]
Determining a person’s age should be easy. The difference between the current date and their birthdate, right? Over at FantasyHockeySim.com, though, it’s become a touch more complicated than that. Among other places, player profiles over at FHS display a player’s age. In the summer of 2023, upon the death of Maple Leafs prospect Rodion Amirov, […]
I’m a little bit of a domain-hoarder. I admit it. And it shouldn’t be much of a surprise given how many jokes there are about developers buying up domains for projects that they’re never actually going to do. This puts me in a good place to talk about the domain acquisition process and how it […]
I’m happy to announce that I’ve ended my job search and accepted a new Senior Software Engineer position. I won’t name the company here in an effort to provide a fig leaf of separation between my work and my personal blog but, of course, it’s probably not that difficult to figure out. I can’t wait […]
I tell the story every now and then of a job search early in my career. I was looking to make a move out of my then-current role. I found a job I was interested in. I emailed my resume to the hiring manager (this was back before LinkedIn EasyApply or Workday or Greenhouse). I […]
Well, this is my third one of these Random SQL Reviews, so I guess we can call it a series, though I’m still not sure how regular they’ll be. Today I want to take a look at something new over at DetroitHockey.Net. I decided recently that I wanted to have a little more automatically-generated social […]
It’s been awhile since I’ve played around with the Trello API but my “To-Do” board was annoying me recently and I found something new to automate. As I’ve previously mentioned, I’ve got a webhook listening to my “To-Do” board. I’ve also mentioned that this board consists of “Not Started,” “In Progress,” and “Done” columns. In […]
I mentioned last month that I’d been sharing “interesting” SQL queries from my own code with a coworker as a way to spread some SQL knowledge that I think sometimes gets overlooked. I’m still not sure that I want to do a whole series of blog posts around that but I have another query that […]