Ben Edmunds

An evolving idea I’m working through is that developer portals like Backstage and Port are becoming obsolete.

Every platform team I’ve talked to wants to build a portal.

Every company eventually builds an internal developer platform.

Shared staging environments are a lie we all agree to believe.

Our CI runners were slowly ruining everyone’s day.

I’ve ran into an issue recently that hopefully can help you.

A question was recently posed to a CTO mailing list I’m a part of as to evaluating contractors.

I’ve been getting excited about and have started talking about CodeIgniter 4 a lot more recently.

I’m sure most of you know that at one time I was heavily involved in the CodeIgniter framework but have not been in quite some time.

Today I upgraded to Yosemite.

I recently had the pleasure of receiving an early copy of Integrating Frontend Components with Web Applications by Maks Surguy.

This expands on my post, Securing against Cross Site Request Forgery (CSRF) exploits in PHP.

Cross Site Request Forgery (CSRF) is basically the opposite of an XSS exploit.

Hey, sorry for taking like six months since my last blog post.

The product is the current product, the culture is the next hundred products.

I’m always up for a good life hack to improve my productivity so I wanted to share the most recent one I’ve discovered.

Just a simple explanation for anyone else running into this issue getting PHPUnit working with Zend Server CE on OSX Mountain Lion.

Announcing the release of the Appcelerator ACS JS SDK module for Node.js.

Thanks to the awesome work done by sepehr, Ion Auth now supports MongoDB.

Announcing the release of the Boxcar.io Provider API PHP SDK for CodeIgniter and Laravel.

Annoucing the release of the Last.FM module and widget for PyroCMS by AppStucco.

Announcing the release of my Composer bundle for Laravel.

Recently Militis reminded me of a “trick” to automatically load items from the CodeIgniter super-object.

Last night and today have been extremely exciting as Dan Lopez and I have offically launched AppStucco!

Announcing the release of the Appcelerator ACS PHP SDK for CodeIgniter, Laravel, and plain ol’ PHP.

This is pretty much an exact copy of my Writing a Nagios plugin with PHP post modified for Javascript.

For those of you who don’t know, Nagios is a simple and powerful monitioring tool.

In this post we’ll walk through how to setup a simple MVR Node.js project using Express, Mongoose (MongoDB), Jade (templating) and everyauth (authentication).

Announcing the release of my Tumblr bundle for Laravel.

This seems to be something a lot of people don’t know how to do so here’s a quick intro.

I’m using MongoHQ for a Node.js app I’m deploying on Heroku and couldn’t find it plainly documented anywhere how to connect to MongoHQ using node-mongodb-native, so enjoy: /** * NOTE: whitespace added for readability * * EXAMPLE OPTIONS: * var options…

The Zone One of the hardest things for developers is to stay focused and in the “zone”.

Announcing the release of my Twilio bundle for Laravel.

An important part of leading a development team is detecting and preventing burnout before it sets in.

I’m going to do a small series to document some of the things I’ve learned while being a developer all these years and while managing/leading development teams.

The following is a quick one-liner for pulling and updating a mercurial repo with a specified directory, this is especially useful for deployment scripts: $ hg pull -vu --cwd /full/path/to/dir/to/update

I had to read through the Jekyll source to figure this out since I didn’t see this feature documented anywhere (I’m sure it is though) so I’m going to document how to filter the display of posts in Jekyll by a published date.

I’m always interested in the way other people work so I figured I would share my environment and what makes me most productive.