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2024

November 19 Common SemVer Problems

August 22 Please Stop Using Helm v2 With Tiller

February 26 Why Are CNCF Contributors Down

February 20 CNCF Sandbox: Know Before You Submit

February 12 Retrospective After Two Years On The CNCF TOC

February 5 The CNCF For Developers

January 30 Kubernetes Is Great On-premise

January 22 Open Source Doesn't Require Providing Builds

2023

March 15 Container Image Search In Artifact Hub

January 11 Where the CNCF TOC Members Are In the World (for 2022)

January 5 CNCF Contributors Are Global

2022

November 30 Helm, kubeVersion, and GKE

October 19 What's Up With Rancher Fleet?

October 18 Why You Might Want To Use The SLES Base Container Images

October 17 Verify SUSE SLE Base Container Images SLSA Attestations

August 29 Docker Desktop vs Rancher Desktop

May 16 Golang Logging Mess

April 7 localdev.me DNS For Local Development

March 11 Verify SUSE SLE Base Container Images With Cosign

January 4 Bringing Docker engine (Moby) and The Docker CLI to Rancher Desktop

2021

December 13 Choosing Processor for Framework Laptop

December 7 Why I Bought A Framework Laptop

November 15 IT Should Be An Enabler

September 30 Podman vs Nerdctl

August 31 Tips For Your Helm Pull Request

August 18 Always Be Connecting Dots

July 8 Two Reasons Minimizing Distraction Matters

June 17 New Open Source Projects from SUSE / Rancher

June 8 How We Did Logging Differently In Hypper

May 20 What Are Operators? A Look At The Definition

March 25 Helm - A Look At The Code For The Kubernetes Package Manager

March 23 Better Golang Logging - How We Can Untangle The Mess

March 22 Storing More Than Container Images In Registries

February 25 Blog Code Under Open Source License

February 11 DNS Saves Headaches

February 2 Learning Helm (The Book)

2020

September 28 Why We Have Software Elitism

July 2 Helm: 4 Places To Find Helm Charts

July 1 Kubernetes: Controlling exec Access

June 12 Helm Growth and Kubernetes Complexity

May 21 Artifact Hub: Notifications and Webhooks

May 18 Helm Under The Hood: Storage Using Secrets

May 12 Clutternaming, The Anti-pattern

May 6 Installing Go on Linux In One Command

May 4 Helm, JSON Schema, and Generated Forms

April 30 Graduating Helm, A Look At The Process

April 20 Introducing The Artifact Hub

April 13 Helm v2: Air Gapped

April 7 Docker Compose Spec

February 3 Do I Need An Operator?

January 27 2020 CNCF TOC Election Guide

January 14 Please Make Your Websites Archivable

January 8 Lessons Learned From The Stall of Drupal

2019

October 5 Usefulness of Security Audits

September 13 Go Modules and Major Versions

September 12 SemVer v3 Released

September 3 PSA: Go 1.13 Default Module Proxy Privacy

July 17 Go Needs A Package Interoperability Group

July 10 Glide, Go Modules, and Go Dependency Handling

June 10 Multicloud: Why It Matters

June 3 Kubernetes: Long Label Names and UX

February 22 An Analogy On Solution Building

2018

November 5 Business Case For Using Kubernetes

October 17 Two Things I Want From Public Clouds

September 21 DCO Signoff In GitHub UI

August 28 Git Signoff Shortcut

August 21 Reinhard Nägele: Chopping Wood and Carrying Water

July 16 What is serverless, anyway?

July 12 Helm vs Kustomize: Managing Complexity

June 22 Kubernetes App Survey Highlight: The Windows Problem

June 4 Dependency Management: Know Your People

May 29 Go vgo: A Look At User Needs

May 22 Go vgo: A Broken Dependency Tree

May 22 Go: From Godep To vgo, A Commentated History

May 21 Go vgo: Semantic Versioning and Human Error

April 25 Problems Blocking Rise of Open Web

April 9 Kubernetes: Take The Apps Survey

March 20 Kubernetes: Where Helm And Related Tools Sit

February 26 Kubernetes Helm: What Platform Package Managers Do

January 29 A Shift In Kubernetes Feature Development

January 16 Dealing With Open Source Conflict

January 9 Helm and Charts: 2017 In Review

January 8 Comcast vs Frontier: Comparing New High-Speed DSL and Cable Internet

January 2 Learning Kubernetes-isms: Labels and Annotations

2017

December 19 Kubernetes Community Charts: Now With OWNERS

December 14 Learning Kubernetes-isms: OWNERS files, approvers, and reviewers

November 28 Kubernetes is Hard

November 20 Helm Charts: Higher Level Programming and Apps

October 31 More Easily Defining Apps In Kubernetes

October 16 Charts: Instant Feedback For Kubernetes Chart Developers via CI

September 25 Helm: Understanding Charts API vs App Registry

2016

November 28 From Standards To Proprietary

November 17 Kubernetes: Helm Package Manager 2.0.0 Released

November 3 Go: Package Management Survey Results 2016

October 12 How To Download Kubectl

September 23 Data Gravity

September 13 Go: Navigate GOPATH More Quickly In cd

August 31 Go: Take The Survey On Dependency Management

August 29 Dipping Your Toes Into Cloud Native Application Development

August 24 Go: How Outdated Are Your Dependencies?

August 23 Glide: What's New in 0.12.0

August 16 Kubernetes SIG Apps: first survey results and intro

July 6 Glide: What's New in 0.11.0

June 8 Kubernetes: Easy App Dev Mac Environment

May 16 Kubernetes: SIG Apps

March 24 Glide 0.10.0 - Vendoring, Gom imports, and more

March 14 Go Exposed: How Remote Import Paths Work

March 11 SemVer 1.1.0 Released With Validation Support

March 3 Stripping Vendor VCS Data While Using Glide

February 25 Why Glide Doesn't Strip Unused Packages

February 21 How To Fix The Go Package Management Problem

February 4 Contributing Glide User Documentation

January 26 The Glide Re-Architecture

January 13 Dangers of Monorepo Projects

2015

December 16 Glide install and the glide.lock file

December 11 Glide 0.8.0 Released - Manage Go Dependencies Like Other Languages

November 16 Why It's Time For Go Packages To Start Versioning

November 13 The Three Pillars Of Cloud Computing

November 4 Seeing How The Other Side Lives, A Package Manager Overview For Go Developers

November 2 Glide 0.7.0 Now With SemVer and Auto Flattening

October 7 Announcing Masterminds/vcs Package For Go

September 18 Why Bother Building Cloud Native Applications?

September 9 Flattening Go Dependencies With Glide

September 4 Call For Feedback On A Go Package Metadata Spec

September 2 The Swift to WebDAV Proxy Architecture

August 31 Glide 0.5.1, Now For Vendored Packages

August 25 Building An OpenStack Swift to WebDAV Proxy

August 24 The New Go 1.5 Vendor Handling

August 19 Glide 0.5 and Go Vendor Support

July 13 Comparing Versions In Go

July 7 Should Go Projects Vendor Dependencies?

July 6 Package Versions, A Problem For Many Go Projects

June 30 Caddy a modern web server supporting HTTP/2

June 18 Cookoo 1.2.0 Released

June 17 Glide 0.3.0 Released

June 16 LastPass Breach, Password Security, and Reason

June 12 Easing Glide Usage in Zsh

June 5 Building Custom AngularJS Panels in the OpenStack Dashboard (Horizon)

June 1 Theming The OpenStack Dashboard In Kilo

May 21 A Go File Server With Custom Error Pages

2014

October 13 Connecting to OpenStack in node.js with pkgcloud

October 7 Glide In The Sea of Go Package Managers

October 6 Find Security Holes With A Threat Analysis

September 29 Security is a Feature

September 22 Review: The HP Way

August 12 Why Companies Exist

July 2 Why OpenStack Matters

June 5 Using Private and Final In Open Source Software

June 2 State of Application Developer Experience with OpenStack

April 30 Modern PHP, Popularity, and Facebook

April 24 Introducing Cookoo, A Unique Controller and Lightweight Framework for Go

April 21 Building Cloud Agnostic Applications

April 14 Is It Time To Encrypt All Personal User Data?

April 7 Introducing the OpenStack SDK for PHP

March 26 Practical Guide To PSR-0 and PSR-4

March 25 Converting Markdown to PDF with PHP

March 5 Platforms Beat Programming Languages

February 28 QueryPath and HTML5

February 24 Three Parts To Being A Tech Lead

February 19 Symfony DomCrawler and HTML5

February 18 Why The Internet of Things Scares Me

February 13 Lint Your Go Software With Golint

January 30 How Engineering Is Different From Development or Programming

2013

December 2 HTML5: The Semantic Difference Between Bold and Strong

October 28 Go, Travis CI, and Case Sensitive Project Names

October 21 DrupalCamp MI: Secure Your Site

October 2 Releasing A HTML5 Parser and Writer For PHP

August 29 Drupal Developer Career Advice

August 26 OpenStack Should Take A Play From The PHP Playbook

June 27 Securing Your Site: Clickjacking and X-Frame-Options

June 26 Call For HTML5 PHP Parser And Serializer Feature Requests

June 25 PHPUnit Multiple Test Dependencies

June 4 Introducing A HTML5 Parser and Serializer for PHP

May 29 Lessons From The Field: Being A Tech Lead

May 23 How Drupal Is Like Enterprise Software

May 15 Why Go Is An Excellent Modern Programming Language

April 24 PHP: Testing Private and Protected Methods

April 11 Choosing Between YUIDoc and JSDoc3

April 9 JavaScript Bindings Released for HP Cloud

March 29 Designing A New Landing Page

January 29 A Simple Product Design Process

January 22 Taking Advantage of the Elderly

January 17 How To Be A Better Than Average Programmer

2012

December 27 Faster Cloud Storage Uploads

December 13 Bending Jekyll To Your Will With Aspect Oriented Programming

December 11 How To Install Git Subtree on Mac and Ubuntu

December 10 Building Command Line Applications in PHP

December 3 Surviving Hard Drive and Backup Drive Failure

November 14 Successfully Commenting Code

October 17 Who Are The Drupal Target Audiences?

October 16 PHP, Anonymous Functions, Closures, and QueryPath

October 9 Does Drupal Target Developers?

October 8 Ugly Code, Debating It, and Successful Products

September 24 Properly Getting Field Data on Entities (Nodes)

September 21 Fixing the iOS Maps Data Problem

September 20 Some Handy Backup Solutions

September 19 Tales From The Field: Always Have A Backup

September 17 The Difference Between Inventing and Innovating

September 14 10 Famous and Good Design Principles

September 5 Switching From Pygments to Prettify

September 4 Understanding How The jQuery Constructor Creates Lots of Extra jQuery Objects

August 29 A Production / Development Toggle For Drupal 7 With Speedy

August 24 Volunteer For Charity at GiveCamp

August 23 Comcast (Xfinity) Internet Tech Support Comedy of Errors

August 13 HP Cloud PHP Library and Drupal Module Release

July 30 The HP Cloud Blog Running On The Cloud With Drupal

July 16 Supporting Aaron Winborn

July 16 PHP Documentation - A Look At Sami, phpDocumentor, and Doxygen

July 2 A Simple Async JavaScript Loader

June 29 Solving The PHP Problem

June 26 Practical Problems With PSR-2

June 7 Working With UUIDs In PHP

May 30 Why Front End Performance Is Important

May 25 Non-Blocking Loading Of 3rd Party Scripts In Drupal

May 15 Drupal 7.14 API Compatibility Breaking Change

May 15 Ethics, Software Engineering, and The Web

May 7 Speedy 1.0 Released

April 23 Understanding Other Developers - Users Of Our Development Products

April 17 Why It Is Hard To Minify On The Fly

April 13 Using Bitbucket In Addition To Github

April 12 Why I Continue To Choose PHP

April 11 4 Reasons To Choose PHP For Your Next New Project

April 10 Why I Love PHP

April 10 An Hour A Week To Better Documentation

April 5 Faster Mobile Sites

April 3 Drupal 8 and Front End Performance

March 29 Why Minify JavaScript?

March 21 Introducting the Speedy Module

March 20 Drupal, HP Cloud, and PHP

March 13 Learning From Verizon Wireless Experience Failures

March 12 Understanding The Hard Stuff

March 5 Switching From Bash to Zsh

February 20 Jekyll Deploy Scripts

February 13 LossLess Theme Image Optimization with ImageOptim

February 9 How I Switched My Blog From Drupal To Jekyll

February 8 Why I Switched My Blog From Drupal To Jekyll

2011

December 27 Protocol Relative URLs in Drupal 7

December 26 Drupal Does Not Respect https:// When Caching

October 17 DrupalCamp Michigan Registration Re-Opened

October 3 The First DrupalCamp Michigan

September 20 The Drupal Community and Front End Performance

September 13 PHP Needs A New Package Manager

September 8 SplFixedArray, An Underutilized PHP Gem

July 20 PHP 5.3 Performance: __toString() vs. A Method

May 16 JavaScript Theme Functions in Drupal

May 1 Translatable Strings In Drupal JavaScript

April 5 Build your JavaScript With jQuery 1.5.2 in Drupal 7

April 4 How to Get Your Point Across in 30 Seconds or Less

March 17 Drupal 8 JavaScript Excellence Roadmap

February 17 Making Drupal's JavaScript Rock Hard Awesome

January 24 Who Rules Drupal?

2010

December 15 3 Tips To Make Your jQuery Selectors Faster

November 10 Review: Even Faster Web Sites

November 9 How You Can Help Make DrupalCon Chicago Rock

November 2 Fixing The Drupal JavaScript Problem Examples Explained

November 1 Fixing The Drupal JavaScript Problem

October 26 3 Lessons Learned From The Drupal 1 and 3 Codebases

October 8 Making Drupal OpenID More User Friendly

September 23 Retrieving And Using Data From Google Analytics

September 22 Tracking Custom Variables With Google Analytics

September 16 Building A Drupal Site or Module Documentation Site With Doxygen

September 15 4 Reasons To Consider Doxygen Over phpDocumentor

September 9 Script Editing in Chrome 6

August 31 Performance Is Green

June 10 Accessing Libraries, Whether In Drupal or Elsewhere

June 9 Safari Reader: An Example Of An Accessibility Failure

June 8 Installing and Using The Zend Framework Via Pear

June 3 The Time To Embrace PHP 5.3 Is Here

June 1 Debugging in Drupal 7

May 17 3 Tips For Using External Libraries With Drupal

May 13 The New Way To Generate Hashes In Drupal 7

May 10 Why H.264 Has Won And What It Will Take To Change

April 29 Architect Using Diagrams

April 27 It's Time For NoMVC

April 26 Building Web APIs Developers Want To Consume

April 12 jQuery Date and Time Pickers

March 5 Visualize Your Page Size with Browser Size

March 4 Showdown: Blueprint vs. the 960 Grid

March 2 More Git GUIs

March 1 Pluggable Entity Operations in Drupal 7

February 26 Farbtastic 1.3u

February 24 SmartGit - The Best Git Gui So Far

February 23 Building Your Own Git Server

February 22 Switching to Git

February 19 Downloading Dependencies With Drush Make

February 17 Farbtastic is Dead, Long Live Farbtastic

February 15 Putting Password Strength Testers Everywhere

January 19 Removing "(not verified)" in Drupal 7

January 15 Battle of the Drupal 6 Admin Themes

January 11 Sequel Pro - A Fantastic Mac MySQL GUI

January 8 5 More Hot & Free Drupal 6 Themes

January 6 5 Hot & Free Drupal 6 Themes

January 5 How To Evaluate A CMS

January 4 First Step In Choosing A CMS

2009

December 8 Managing Comment Spam

December 3 Performance Comparison: document.createElement('img') vs. new Image()

December 1 Preloading Images with jQuery and JavaScript

November 30 Good Drupal Search Without Solr

November 23 The Sad Truth of Internet Explorer

November 20 Building A Stack Overflow Clone With Drupal - Part 4

November 19 Building A Stack Overflow Clone With Drupal - Part 3

November 13 Building A Stack Overflow Clone With Drupal - Part 2

November 4 Building A Stack Overflow Clone With Drupal - Part 1

November 3 Bringing Architecture To Your Software

November 2 Are Forums A Thing Of The Past?

October 29 The Bazaar Epic Failure

October 28 Life After Being Hacked

October 14 Two Reasons Internet Explorer 6 Is Not A Bad Browser

October 13 Simple Block Forms in Drupal

October 12 Why I Chose Drupal Instead of Wordpress

October 8 Regular Expressions and Unit Tests, A Beautiful Match

October 7 5 Free Regular Expression Tools

October 6 Regular Expression Primer and Guides

October 2 Web Hosting Woes (What To Look Out For In A Host)

October 1 Operating on Features Not Browser Versions

September 30 Choosing The Best Programming Language

September 29 HTML5 and CSS3 - It's Time To Start Using Them

September 28 960 Grid

September 28 Welcome to the Code Engineered