I’ve been in web development since 1999, when I started at Animated Designs as a contract Perl programmer. I spent 6 years there learning an array of web technologies in the areas of programming, databases, and Linux system administration. I left to seek out new adventures outside of California, which brought me to Seattle. Since … Read more » Introducing Mastodon Labs

Every web developer has a particular way of working. This can be anything from using particular software applications, to storyboarding with construction paper, to drawing diagrams on paper napkins at their favorite local cafe. Whatever it may be, they learned at some point in their experience as a developer, that their technique works. But if … Read more » Architecting Your Dev Environment

I’ve moved my website from GoDaddy.com to Dreamhost.com today. Its a superior hosting platform from a developer perspective. For one it’s far more flexible. More importantly GoDaddy’s websites are setup so when you login to your website with FTP, your home directory is the website root! That’s very bad from a security perspective. As developers … Read more » Hello world!