51 Posts

Topic: Development

InfoQ interview - Go Language at 13 Years

InfoQ interview - Go Language at 13 Years

I had the pleasure of speaking with Olimpiu Pop from InfoQ about the Go language and community. …

Gophers Say GopherCon Edition

Gophers Say GopherCon Edition

Go Time panelists Natalie & Jon join forces with Go Team members Steve Francia, Katie …

Break things on purpose podcast

Break things on purpose podcast

I had the privilage of sitting down with my friend Jason Yee as a guest on his podcast. Listen …

Grokking Go.dev - Go Time Podcast

Grokking Go.dev - Go Time Podcast

I had the privilage of joining my coworker Julie Qiu as we talked with our friends Carmen, Mat …

New Go Branding Strategy

New Go Branding Strategy

I joined the GoTime podcast and told them EVERYTHING about Go’s new branding strategy (and …

Go Developer Survey

Go Developer Survey

I joined GoTime to talk about the results of the 2016 Go Developer Survey and other interesting …

Hugo goes global

Hugo goes global

Hugo is going Global! Hugo 0.17, released today, is our best and fastest release ever! Hugo …

I’m joining the Go team at Google

I’m joining the Go team at Google

I am honored to share that I have joined Google as a member of the Go team and will be …

How To Be A Good Open Source Community Member

How To Be A Good Open Source Community Member

A friend of mine who is a very talented writer recently became intrigued with open source and …

Hugo Summer 2014 Update

Hugo Summer 2014 Update

Hugo, the fast and flexible static site generator, is really coming of age. I wanted to give a …

Evangelism is NOT Sales

Evangelism is NOT Sales

I recently had a discussion with a CFO of a technology company. We were meeting because he is …

Pointers vs References

Pointers vs References

Some languages including C, C++ support pointers. Other languages including C++, Java, Python, …

Is Go an Object Oriented language?

Is Go an Object Oriented language?

To truly understand what it means to be ‘object-oriented’ you need to look back at the …

9 MongoDB 2.6 Drivers Released

9 MongoDB 2.6 Drivers Released

I’m pleased to announce the coordinated release of drivers in 9 languages in preparation for …

Cross Compiling with Go

Cross Compiling with Go

One of the great features of golang is that you can compile executables for many different …

Why I use spf13-vim

Why I use spf13-vim

a completely cross platform distribution of vim plugins and resources for Vim, GVim and MacVim stays true to it's vim roots while adding modern features including a plugin management system, a curated plugin set with customized configuration, advanced autocomplete, tags, support for dozens of languages and much more.

A modern CLI Commander for go

A modern CLI Commander for go

Cobra is a commander providing a simple interface to create powerful modern CLI interfaces similar to git & go tools. In addition to providing an iterface, Cobra simultaneously provides a controller to organize your application code.

Refactoring with go fmt

Refactoring with go fmt

using go fmt to quickly refactor your code

MongoDB Driver days hackathon round up

MongoDB Driver days hackathon round up

A round up of projects created during the driver days hack day by the 10gen drivers team focused on the MongoDB user experience.

How to deliver a great conference tutorial

How to deliver a great conference tutorial

4 secrets I used to give the most popular presentation in the history of OSCON.

Getting Started with MongoDB and PHP

Getting Started with MongoDB and PHP

The first in a series of posts on MongoDB and PHP that will both explain why you should use MongoDB and teach you how.

spf13-vim 3.0 release and new website

spf13-vim 3.0 release and new website

spf13-vim is a cross platform distribution of vim plugins and resources for Vim, GVim and MacVim.

Getting started with Drupal and MongoDB

Getting started with Drupal and MongoDB

Drupal is the standard in content management systems. MongoDB enables high performance Drupal. Get started with a MongoDB backed Drupal.

MongoDB and PHP, The Book

MongoDB and PHP, The Book

I wrote a book. It is published by O’Reilly, and available now on Amazon, O’Reilly Media and a …

Backup, Replication and Disaster Recovery

Backup, Replication and Disaster Recovery

How to go about creating better backups through replication and snapshots and how to ensure that your infrastructure has a solid disaster recovery plan.

Easy bash scripting with shflags

Easy bash scripting with shflags

One of the most frustrating things about bash scripts is how challenging it is to create unix …

Creating a Symfony2 Console Command

Creating a Symfony2 Console Command

One of the weaknesses of PHP as a languages has always been it’s ability to write proper …

The Browser as an application platform

The Browser as an application platform

With Google launching their chrome book is significant as it reflects a substantial shift in …

Creating your own Symfony2 Bundle

Creating your own Symfony2 Bundle

Symfony2 is a great web framework. OpenSky is built on this framework and we are one of the …

Release early, release often to minimize risk

Release early, release often to minimize risk

Release Cycles have been debated for the last 30 years and will certainly be for the next 30. …

My Favorite Rands Posts

My Favorite Rands Posts

If you don’t know Rands (real name Michael Lopp), you should. His blog is full of excellent …

Getting Started with Symfony2

Getting Started with Symfony2

In a follow up to my popular post on Symfony2, the open source PHP framework we use at …

On Symfony2

On Symfony2

Symfony2 is the latest brainchild of Fabien Potencier.

The perfect .vimrc vim config file

The perfect .vimrc vim config file

I have spent the last few years tweaking and refining my VIM configuration. This is the …

Software Development's Magic Triangle

Software Development's Magic Triangle

There’s an old adage “Fast, Cheap, Good; Pick Two”. This situation is called a magic triangle. …

16 lessons from 16 years

16 lessons from 16 years

16 lessons learned I learned from my first 16 years working in the technology industry.

Ultimate Vim Config

Ultimate Vim Config

I have spent the last few years tweaking and refining my VIM configuration until I had the …

The Golden Hammer

The Golden Hammer

Every so often a “new” technology catches on. Right now it’s nosql databases. A couple years …

NoSQL Databases

NoSQL Databases

Amazon, Digg, Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter all started on sql databases (all but Amazon on …

Human readable du sorted by size

Human readable du sorted by size

du is the *nix command for disk usage. It tells you how much space everything in the given …

Using the right keys

Using the right keys

Today I was visiting a friends office and like many offices in NYC they have a shared bathroom …

REST vs SOAP, the difference between soap and rest

REST vs SOAP, the difference between soap and rest

What's SOAP? What's REST? and what the differences are between them with recommendations of when to use REST versus SOAP

My Online Business Card (Vcard)

My Online Business Card (Vcard)

I wanted to polish up my javascript coding so I decided that the best way to do that was with a …

7 security practices you need to follow

7 security practices you need to follow

Some of this may seem like a broken record, yet every single time you hear about a bank losing …

Secure Automated, Key Based SSH

Secure Automated, Key Based SSH

SSH is great and secure… Unless you need to automate it. Then it sucks because your only …

Installing Git on a Shared Host

Installing Git on a Shared Host

Git is a fantastic tool and is very useful for deployment. If you can’t install git system wide …

Vim Plugins: NERD Commenter

Vim Plugins: NERD Commenter

The NERD Commenter is an indispensable tool when programming in VIM. It understands like a …

Mastering the Command Line

Mastering the Command Line

If you use *nix, no doubt you’ve spent some time on the command line. Here are a few of the …

Setting up Subversion with multiple access methods

Setting up Subversion with multiple access methods

One thing that makes subversion such a powerful revision system is it’s ability to permit …

How RIM handed the mobile market over to Apple

How RIM handed the mobile market over to Apple

Just because you are the market leader doesn't mean you will stay the market leader. A lesson on competition given by Apple to RIM.

Using SVK to Increase Productivity

Using SVK to Increase Productivity

After subversion but before Git there was SVK. If you are stuck using subversion do yourself a favor and use svk.