Articles

I do not like green eggs and SPAM!

November 15th, 2023

One of the things we do for our customers is send email. A lot of it. And it is important for their customers (and so for the business) that this email arrives quickly and reliably. This is easier said than done.

Ramon de la Fuente

Design a job worth playing.

October 12th, 2022

For the past two years I have been researching what makes a well-designed game. An interesting exercise, but in doing so I realised: on many occasions a job actually resembles a poorly designed game! Here's why.

Ramon de la Fuente

Code. with. me.

January 11th, 2021

Remote pair programming using the code-with-me plugin for PHPStorm.

Ramon de la Fuente

Connecting the Dots - My Onboarding Experience and Mental Model of a Software Development Team

August 10th, 2020

The good news is I recently joined a team of software engineers at Future500 B.V. The normal routine every company embraces as part of their culture is that new team members going through an onboarding process and it's been fun, exciting, interesting and challenging.

Oliver Mensah

Chmod, Facl, no, but really who is the file owner

August 7th, 2020

Sharing the knowledge on how to answer the age-old question "Why isn't `www-data` allowed to read this file?"

Edwin Kortman