May 31, 2021CI — GitHub Actions and Laravel (Part 1 of 3)May 23, 2021 The point is GitHub Actions should be revolutionizing your team’s workflows; if it is not, you are missing something important. This first post is part one of three. In this series I will cover the following topics. PT 1 CI — Simple Continuous Integration using GitHub Actions …DevOps13 min readDevOps13 min read
May 24, 2021Debug your Laravel Sail Applications with xDebug843Julien Aupartthanks for the article. It is a bummer Xdebug is not included. Just had a few questionsthanks for the article. It is a bummer Xdebug is not included. Just had a few questions 1) do you have a link to a working project with this in place? 2) was SAILDEBUG supposed to be SAIL_DEBUG or the other way around? Seems the .env file has one version and you then reference another 3) the docker build step you do not add the build arg XDEBUG was that on purpose? Thanks again!1 min read1 min read
May 20, 2021This post will be a look at how to manage your time in the midst of what can seem to be endless…How do we go on the “offensive” leaving behind what has only become a “defensive” effort to save our day from becoming unproductive? Leaving us at the end of the day feeling like we need to make up some time after work or the weekend This post will be a…13 min read13 min read
Mar 6, 2021Ongoing: Links and Notes About DevOps Transformation Using the Accelerate Data and StrategiesNext time I needed this info, I just wanted to make sure that I have the links I need concerning the Accelerate book and Software Delivery Performance. So I will use this page to continue to add info about these resources. The links below really are all related as the…Accelerate5 min readAccelerate5 min read
Jan 16, 2020Suggestions Around Building a Good Development Team in Parallel to Building a Good ProductSuggestions Around Building a Good Development Team in Parallel to Building a Good Product I’m not a great programmer; I’m just a good programmer with great habits — Kent Beck. Behind any project there has to be processes in place to build a culture of good coding habits for developers…5 min read5 min read
Nov 12, 2017Continuous Delivery in a NutShellMainline Workflow “Once you achieve a certain frequency of releases, around once a week or so, it no longer makes sense to branch for release.” — Continuous Delivery: Reliable Software Releases through Build, Test, and Deployment Automation tl;dr I want to do a tl;dr of a workflow, that two years ago seemed insane…Continuous Integration7 min readContinuous Integration7 min read
Jun 20, 2017Skeleton Install for PHP Command Line Tools#note2self Thanks to Andrew Cavanagh for proofing this and Matt Lantz Basically this skeleton tool was something I made to help out my day to day work and hopefully it will come in handy for others writing PHP Command Line Tools. You can get to the repo here. Since I…Laravel11 min readLaravel11 min read
May 3, 2017Meetings and Cross TimeZone TeamsMeetings are needed, most of them at least, and when I worked with a team that was all in the same timezone I was easily able to say, “Between 1–4 I am coding/focusing” or “Between 6am and 9am” I am coding. …Productivity4 min readProductivity4 min read
Mar 24, 2017Simple Slack Trait for taking Requests and returning ResponsesThis is something we have been doing a lot for a team I am on, and I feel that Laravel 5.4 Slack feature might be more than I need in most cases like this one. …Slack3 min readSlack3 min read
Mar 16, 2017We Code in the Context of our QuotingThis article can be listened too here or in your favorite podcast player Whether you are working Waterfall, or Agile we still need to quote out the time it will take for new features. We still need to give the product owners, or the people with the money, a sense…Agile9 min readAgile9 min read
