AWS Solution Architect Associate certification achieved!

I can finally relax a bit. Cleared both CP and SAA. Now to breath for a couple weeks. So happy right now. Oh man, so…

Are you a Babylon 5 fan? I sure am…

Found out yesterday was the 25th anniversary of the pilot movie. Am I getting old or what? (the answer is no, just iterating the property…

Next evolution of containerized services? Maybe not; but still a neat project…

jessfraz over on GitHub has a OCI compatible container image builder. No docker, no daemon. Just straight up image builder built in Go. Ive star’d and…

Are you like me and dislike large container images? Checkout this article from learnk8s.io

TL;DR: The base image in your Dockerfile’s FROM statement can be a 10x difference in the size of your images. Bigger images === longer time…

Yii2 2.0.14 released; bringing with it some excellent changes.

The Yii2 team has release the latest version of the Yii2 framework. With it comes improvements in the following (but not limited to) areas: Scalability…

Today, today is a good day.

Yesterday I sat for the AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner exam. It’s been nearly 6 months of studying, little gaming, much less beer, and far fewer trips. But…

I dont often post about design tools, but when I do…

…I insist, as part of an everyday workflow, business and designers PLEASE use some mock / prototyping tooling. For the love of all that is…

My presentation at SunshinePHP 2018:

Here at SunshinePHP 2017 I did a presentation on automating the code QA process. Find the slides here: https://goo.gl/GanL3n

RE-post: My personal experience migrating a module rom Yii1.x to Yii2.x

(Originally posted on the Sourcetoad Blog circa 20015) Yii is an amazing framework. As it has been iterated on version 2 is now out and…