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When I first started working on Boxstarter, a set of scripts that can stand up a complete, customized windows environment in a completely unattended manner, one of my key objectives was to be able to spin up a new environment with as few bits on hand...

"DevOps" (Short for Developer Operations) is one of a group of new terms such as "Cloud", "Big Data" and "Data Scientist" - words that are somewhere between marketing and tasks we've actually had around in other forms for years.However, working in a...

A colleague is working in a small software development company (twenty employees). He's a part of a team of five developers who work on the leading product of the company. For a few years, the founder was unhappy about the technical skills of the employees...

Software doesn't work. I'm shocked at how often we put up with it. Here's just a few issues - literally off the top of my head - that I personally dealt with last week. My iPhone 4s has 3 gigs of "OTHER" taking up space, according to iTunes. No one...

Stackmob announced it is shutting down this afternoon. I know a few folks that are using their services and are now going to be forced to look for a new provider for their backend services. I thought I’d share my experiences. It has been nearly...