This article describes how to use the cloud-based cluster-management platform Scalarium in order to automatically mass-deploy Symfony2 applications with a MySQL database backend onto clusters of Amazon EC2 virtual machines by creating a special Symfony2 environment, using a custom Chef recipe, and making use of Doctrine migrations.

I’m about 3.5 hours into node.js development, I guess that qualifies me to give advice on it on this Internet thing.

Being the BDD fanatic that I am, I wanted to start off behaviour-driven right from the beginning, and Vows looked like a good choice.

However, I quickly came to the point where I needed to stub [...]

The following roots in something I heard from Jon Jagger at QCon London 2011 after his fantastic talk about Deliberate Practice. It was related to Test Driven Development. He asked “Why do cars have brakes?”. It made us think “To stop!”, but he said “No – to go faster”.

I’m really into visualizations. More often then not I can only really “get” something (a complex system, an abstract idea, a process etc.) when I see it visualized. You could call this the transformation of gut feelings into images.

So, I had this (rather obvious) gut feeling that working iterative in software projects makes a lot [...]