Tag: Software Development Process

  • New Ways to Elevate Your Programming Work With AI

    New Ways to Elevate Your Programming Work With AI

    Have you been feeling a little robotic lately with your programming work? No, of course not–you’re a special snowflake with unique ideas and paths to success. But don’t you think it would be nice to gain a little help from someone who understands your work better than anyone else? Meet AI, the helpful assistant that…

  • Xdebug a PHP docker container in VS Code

    Xdebug a PHP docker container in VS Code

    This is the 2nd installment on debugging PHP applications running in a docker container with Xdebug on VS Code. You can find out how I set up a Docker Container for Apache + MySQL + PHP + Xdebug and Codeigniter on macOS using Docker. In this article, I will cover how you configure Xdebug for…

  • Mastering Modern Code: An Old Programmer’s Guide to Updating Skills

    Mastering Modern Code: An Old Programmer’s Guide to Updating Skills

    I got back into developing software solutions about 10 years ago at age 55, as I saw an opportunity to contribute to a few internal applications idea I had. I have spent my days in project management, and management in the software industry since the early 1990s and during these years did not write any…

  • What you will find out about open-sourcing your code

    What you will find out about open-sourcing your code

    The global community of open-source developers is the backbone of innovations in a number of different fields, including automotive, healthcare, and climate tech.

  • Build Intel64-compatible Docker images from Mac M1

    Build Intel64-compatible Docker images from Mac M1

    I was building a tracking pixel API app for internal websites. A tracking pixel is an HTML code snippet loaded when a user visits a website. I built this app on my laptop, MAC M1, and I run my Docker container locally within Docker Dekstop.

  • Apache + MySQL + PHP + Xdebug and Codeigniter on macOS using Docker

    Apache + MySQL + PHP + Xdebug and Codeigniter on macOS using Docker

    We have developed an application internally that uses Codeigniter as the main PHP framework. Over the years we have added many new functionalities, so we need a solid development environment. up to now we have let our developers use MAMP(MacOS), Windows(LAMP) or individually install Apache, MySQL, PHP (Linux) debugging tools has been up to the…

  • UX Design Tips to Create Apps People Love to Use

    UX Design Tips to Create Apps People Love to Use

    Building an app can help your business reach a variety of goals. For some businesses, the app might be a central part of what they are trying to achieve. 

  • Traits a software engineer need to succeed as IT leaders

    Traits a software engineer need to succeed as IT leaders

    Have you ever been in the situation to hire or promote a software engineer for a management role? Have you find it is difficult, it’s not easy to find managers who motivate, lead and inspire. From my own experiences, I’m sharing some tips on how to find IT leaders outside or within an organization with successful…

  • Multitasking is out – singletasking is in

    Multitasking is out – singletasking is in

    I’m not sure if you are like me, I work on many things at the same time, while writing this article, I’m also answering support questions on Skype as well as talking to my wife. I’m multi-tasking and for years I have believed that multi-tasking is a great skill to have, I have started to wonder…

  • Organizing your software product development cycles around DevOps

    Organizing your software product development cycles around DevOps

    You have probably heard about agile software development, it’s a lean approach to software development. Agile software development has “agile system administration” or “agile operations” been developed that applying agile and lean approaches to operations work.