Recent Posts

• January 14, 2016

  Deep Diving into ORMs

  It's rare that I advocate writing something from scratch when an off-the-shelf solution will fit your needs perfectly, as is almost always the case with an ORM. This time, I got a little too curious, and I wanted to know how the sausage was m...

• January 03, 2016

  Passwords Don't Need to be Complicated

  The state of the password has changed a lot over the past several decades, and unfortunately, not for the better. First, everyone had a few online accounts, and using the same password for the two or three accounts you might have had was probably...

• January 01, 2016

  New Year, New Site

  For a long time, my site has sat stangnant, a desolate and dusty Wordpress blog that contained a few thoughts and musings from years past. I've tried, over and over, to get back into content creation for my personal site, but I always fall sh...

• May 13, 2013

  Phonebook.js - Managing Your AJAX Soup

  With the onset of modern web technologies and the advent of the MVC/VM wars, it was pretty much forgotten that a lot of projects aren't in the right place to use these new "auto-ajax" toolsets. Perhaps they're legacy projects, or...

• February 20, 2013

  Project, Process, Profit

  For the past several weeks, there has been a lot of discussion both online and in my office about the "ideal" practices when it comes to software development. What steps should be taken before you start coding? How much planning should...