The first place I worked, iSTORM didn’t use virtual machines. They had a staging server and a production server. We developed on the staging server and used CVS to synchronize code into production. Later on in my career there was a project where part of the consistent environment setup is everybody using the same virtual […]
Blog Posts
Cool, Well Done Site
https://energyphile.org/philespace/
Herbert Diess for Tesla?
Tesla will have to have Berlin managers. I wonder if he is a good guy?
Slim Framework Auth Example
Clean Code Studio has done a great job with the Slim Auth tutorial. Check it out here: Setup Slim Views With Blade Psr-4 Autoloading Controllers Service Providers Pretty Whoops Error Page Env Variables Files Http Kernel Eloquent DB Setup Database Migrations, Seeds, & Factories Slim Console Commands Vue js front-end Tailwind CSS Setup – https://tailwindcss.com/ […]
Hooking Price Filters into Product Search Engine
As a user, I want to be able to search “cheap tape” or “expensive tape” and have the outcome bring to to relevant filtered results. Or even “cheap scotch tape” Bear in mind, the “Adhesive Tape” category isn’t that sexy. This would make better use cases for “cheap laptop” or “high-end computer chair” or other […]
The Making of a Slider
This blog is about this slider. First a little back story. This is a price filter. But in order for a price filter to work, you need to have products and prices which were feats in and of themselves. These prices come from competing distributors such that best prices are always calculated from the cheapest […]
Tesla Insurance
Wishing I could work to further develop Tesla Insurance.
July 3rd, 2020
Query Planning Experience
I was super fortunate to learn Database Design from Jason Lee and Dan Van Staal Duinen at iSTORM in 2005. Learning from them was way better than SQL class. Beyond what I learned from them, I have really only added 2 major things. INNODB (We were using MYISAM @ iSTORM) and the JSON dataype. As […]