In a given calendar year, our staff can be working in a LOT of different development environments. While Axian as a whole tends to focus on Node.js, Java and .NET runtimes/toolchains, we are also often found working with systems that comprise everything from Python, to Golang, Ruby and beyond! Needless to say this can create … Continued
Recently I was engaged in an AngularJS project that spent a little time switching between views. Okay, well the term “a little” is pretty subjective. As we all know, the more thumb-twiddling a user does while waiting for a response from a server, the less likely they are to use your app, or at the … Continued
My last post took you though setting up boot2docker on your system and provided a quick cheat sheet on how to configure and interact with it. In this post I will be laying out a running list of the commands I use with docker to get the most out of my containers. What is Docker? (From docker.com) Docker allows … Continued
Mac OS X Mountain Lion comes with Apache installed but not enabled. Here are the steps to re-enable Apache 1. Open the OS X Terminal (/Applications/Utilities/) 2. Create and open an Apache user configuration file named for your account in your favorite editor. I am using TextMate so I used the following command sudo mate … Continued
I recently spun up a MicroStrategy VM to be used as a demo/training box. In doing so it seemed natural to throw it on a Windows Server 2012. MicroStrategy 9 is shiny and new, Windows Server 2012 is shiny and new, what could possibly go wrong? Well, I’m posting about it. There’s the first clue. 1st … Continued
In my last 2 posts I discussed the importance of engaging in a postmortem at the end of your projects and promised to provide a template that can be followed when gathering feedback prior to the meeting and consolidating feedback during the meeting. Templates like this have been created and posted all over the web … Continued
So I jumped at the idea of working on a PHP/Zend project. I mean, who doesn’t relish the thought of developing in a weakly-typed language that seems more like a virtual explosion of the key-word and function factory than an actual language alongside a bloated, overly complex MVC framework? Throwing caution to the wind, I … Continued
“How do you get data organized and stored so that Business Intelligence tools can access and distribute valuable information to the right people at the right time?” I intend to summarize a technique that I have used for several years now and will do a deep dive on each topic in future posts. I adopted … Continued
You’ll Need a Logger For That Although it’s a killer feature, Search is as awkward as ever to troubleshoot inSharePoint 2010. The Event Viewer chatter is pretty meek for troubleshooting, and the Search Center crawler reports have couple minute lag which makes them awkward to work with. The ULS logs can be great, but some … Continued
