Music to Program By

One of my favorite parts of my job as a programmer is the ability to listen to music all day long.  One day I might be in the mood for some chill indie rock and the next I’ll cue up some dubstep.  I’ve even been known to declare some weeks as 90s R&B...
Why Programming is Like Fly Fishing

Why Programming is Like Fly Fishing

And why would you care?  To be honest, I’m not really sure.  But it’s fun to think about parallel lessons that can be learned from two dissimilar things, right?  Contrary to how Hollywood portrays programmers (think dark rooms, Mountain Dew, weird glasses,...

Performance Tuning All SSL Webapps

Image from LoozrBoy In my last post, I talked about the benefits of going all SSL for a webapp.  There were plenty of benefits, not the least of which was securing your users’ data.  However, there still exists that one pesky drawback that prevents most of us...