Working in a remote company makes it more difficult to have the regular "tap the person on the shoulder" interaction that sometimes leads to knowledge transfer. You also don't have the (sometimes noisy) osmosis process that can take place when…
Recently, we ran into a bizarre issue with a Drupal7 installation that we work on, but don't fully control. A module was pulling a remote JSON API and presenting it inside the Drupal application. To retrieve the API, we were…
I was setting up some AWS IAM users in Terraform recently and ran smack into an issue that reminded me of the power and the peril of AWS. The issue at hand was ensuring that every user signed in with…
Rails has a great set of tools for managing database changes. These are called Active Record migrations and they were revolutionary when first implemented in the mid 2000s. I remember a friend saying that Rails had solved the "how do…
We do all of our development using git, and most of our projects are hosting on Github. The pull request (PR) is a key part of our dev process, and writing excellent PR descriptions helps code reviewers and folks doing…
This is an overview of the Culture Foundry development process. This process is continuously evolving (so this is a snapshot), but is aimed at creating quality websites and web applications while balancing the needs of our clients for speed. It's…
