Stan Lemon

Today's post on Shave with Swagger discusses why I hated shaving.

I recently read Richard Miller's post Avoiding Setter Injection and I in large part agree with his sentiments.

I'm really excited to share a new blogging endeavor with my friend Mark Buetow, Shave with Swagger and Good morning!

For awhile now I've wished that Bamboo had an app, or something that could deliver a push notification when a build starts or finishes.

I use Atlassian's Bamboo for continuous integration on a lot of projects.

On Thursday, December 20th I decided to deactivate my Facebook account.

A lot of services across the web are amping up security in lieu of recent breaches.

So you don’t give a crap that your data gets exposed or hacked?

Last winter, about a year ago, Google did a round of house cleaning.

There were some great articles today about ORMs, specifically "Is ORM abstraction a pipe dream?"

PHP has more frameworks then I have fingers and toes, and that diversity gives developers and architects alike a lot of choices when it comes to solving a problem.

When I went to order my wife a new phone I couldn't get a straight answer as to whether or not the T-Mobile full-price version would be unlocked or not.

Back in February my family moved from Pittsburgh to Southern Indiana.

I recently read, "I will not do your tech interview." by Ike Ellis and it got me to thinking about the interviews I have been in, both as an interviewer and an interviewee.

I am a firm believer in Puppet.

I use CentOS for most of my development environments and I also use it in a number of production scenarios as well.

If you're using s3cmd to put files into an s3 bucket and need to do so into GovCloud you can, but you need to override the end point URL's used for s3.

I have written elsewhere about my frustrations over the demise of Posterous.

jGrowl is officially on cdnjs.

As promised, with 100+ stargazers on GitHub I've submitted a pull request to cdnjs from CloudFare for jGrowl.

The other day someone on StackOverflow asked how to integrate jGrowl into a Chrome extension.

I get asked a lot what I do for a living.

I get a fair number of emails about jGrowl each week.

Normally on March 25th the church celebrates the Annunciation, when Mary is told that she will conceive and carry the Son of God in her womb.

MySQL is one of the most widely used database servers for web development.

If you are a web developer on OS X you probably are sporting your own installation of your database server.

Yesterday I talked about running composer on Amazon's Elastic Beanstalk.

Amazon's Elastic Beanstalk is another git-driven deployment service, this time directly to EC2 and RDS instances on Amazon Web Services.

I've become a pretty big fan of Red Hat's OpenShift platform.

Mailbox has garnered a lot of attention since it rolled out.

Google announced its latest round of spring cleaning.

I released a small updated to jGrowl today that fixes an issue when triggering the shutdown method (thank you Joana for reporting it!)

Today I released a new version of lectionary.stanlemon.com, my Lutheran lectionary calendar project.

In the summer of 2004 I was a single college student with far too much free time on my hands.

Amazon Web Services is like the godfather of cloud computing.

Unfortunately as I predicted when Posterous was bought, the product is dying.