As I mentioned before, SQL Operations Studio is my new favorite SQL digging tool for queries. It loads fast, is portable, and, most of all, has user-configurable widgets.

As part of my migration from my old blogging software to new, I needed a way to snag all of the images. However, the old system stored the images as extension-less numbers, making it tedious to match article slug to image quickly. I pulled down a database extract with photo ID and slug, but needed a way to pull down the images and rename them from /{id} to /{slug}.{proper_extension} accordingly.

Hugo is a website framework that I decided to use this past week for a short project and, afterwards, liked it so much I’ve decided to rework this blog with it. Here’s a few of the quick lessons I had as a first-time user.

The use of Agile methods for the delivery of software is become commonplace for individual projects.

In software development and support, a huge part of the iterative process is the feedback loop. It’s important to remember though that problems (bugs) and solutions are also skewed by perception and experience.

Learn several practical takeaways to help you design and build things, that go far beyond screen reader compatible, in this presentation from Open Web Camp.

Whether in job searches or on resumes, “DevOps” has become one of the coolest buzzwords to throw around. However, are you using it correctly and does it even matter? According to Wired’s J. Wolfgang Goerlich–it isn’t a job, but DevOps is still important.

Legacy systems exist in almost every enterprise – and sometimes, an upgrade has more ROI than chasing after the “new shiny.”

Most software professionals have never seen a successful software development project, continuous delivery evangelist Dave Farley said, and have “built careers on doing the wrong thing”.

In this piece, we want to narrow our focus to best understand how the fundamental differences between how Web and mobile are used require different tactics.