This here is just me, bragging about myself. You have been warned.

This guy with the psychopathic look standing in a room full of rubbish in front of something that vaguely looks like computers is me standing in front of the first MyHammer server cluster, only days before the whole system went into production.

It was 2005, [...]

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”.