Kyle Cordes

I recently heard from a developer who worked on a project here for about one year, several years back. I won’t name or quote him directly; the essence of his message was:

He learned a lot during that year.
This learning was a turning point in his career.
What he learned has proved lucrative.

Of course it feels great […]

I have ongoing difficulty doing enough writing, for there is so much interesting material to read instead.
Were this not true, you’d now be reading a longer and more informative post.

I’m writing this up as advice to a rhetorical “you”, but it’s really written to a younger version of me.
Imagine that you are working on a project for a customer (or employer), who has a weekly or monthly budget limit. You are paid by the hour, for up to N hours per week; or perhaps […]

Historically I have not been a fan of “frameworks”, and I have often repeated the following joke:
What’s the difference between an application and a framework?
An application is something a customer actually wants!
However, for some applications, I recommend use of an application framework. For some Oasis Digital projects, I require it:
Please, Use a Web Application Framework
My […]

I’ve been attracted to, and trying out, various distributed source control tools for the last two years, and have come to the conclusion that the most likely “winner” is Git. Git does a great many things right, good progress is being made in the few areas it is weak, and it has rapidly growing popularity. […]

A couple of months ago I posted about using the current model Comtrol RocketModem IV with Debian / Ubuntu Linux. Ubuntu/Debian includes an older “rocket” module driver in-the-box, which works well for older RocketModem IV cards. But for the newest cards, it does not work at all. The current RocketModem IV is not recognized by […]