Developing on production?

Let me preface this post by saying this is a bad idea for most true production systems, particularly ones with many hundreds, thousands, or hundreds of thousands of users. But for quiet, independently developed web apps with only a handful of users, I believe this is a viable strategy given the caveats in bold a… Continue reading Developing on production?

End of an era

I started a combined Masters/PhD program at the amazing UC Davis Department of Computer Science in the Fall of 1999. As a grad student, I not only had access to the lab computers, but also access to a folder named “public_html” in my user account which was configured to serve up a website under the… Continue reading End of an era