By Trey Tacon My co-workers teased me a bit when they found out I was blogging about Go once again. I’ve been singing its praises for a few years now …

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People new to web development often turn to jQuery to help them learn to write interactive web pages. The story was no different for me. I have fond memories of …

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I know grammar nerds who gleefully correct others for using accept when they should be using except. And while I’m not usually one to correct others, I do occasionally hear colleagues using function and …

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A new service named AWS CodeDeploy was announced last week at AWS re:Invent in Las Vegas! AWS CodeDeploy is an exciting new service that we had the opportunity to be …

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If you’re building infrastructure on Amazon Web Services, it is worthwhile to take advantage of the benefits of using AWS CloudFormation and utilizing version control to keep track of infrastructure. …

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By Trey Tacon For the past several years, Python was my go-to language for most projects. I appreciated its (list of features, benefits) and still do. But once I started …

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By Jason Brown There hundreds of programming languages out there and most of us don’t have time to learn them all. Ideally we find a few that are comfortable and …

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For years I’ve been using this simple design pattern when building a new user authentication backend for a project. Rather than just querying whether a username and password is valid, …

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This article introduces the very basics of writing stored procedures with PostgreSQL (aka Postgres), an open-source database system. It is intended for both Postgres newbies and MS SQL Server/MySQL stored …

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I occasionally check-up on the web developer jobs on craigslist.org, and this is the second time this month I’ve noticed this particular scam. When I realize what these asshats are …

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