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RethinkDB Control Structures

http://blog.seid.io/rethinkdb/nodejs/2015/10/21/rethinkdb-control-structures-meetup-sf.html

Oct 21, 2015 Mike Seid. This talk was given at the RethinkDB meetup in San Francisco on October 21st, 2015. Will be added shortly. Find the code on Github: https:/ github.com/mbseid/rethink-control-structures. My little space on the large internet. Https:/ mike.seid.io.

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My HTML/CSS Styles For Success

http://blog.seid.io/2014/01/23/my-htmlcss-styles-for-success.html

My HTML/CSS Styles For Success. Jan 23, 2014 Mike Seid. Over the past few years, I have built sites small and large. From my experience, and learning from my peers around me, I have developed a guide for success. With these guidelines, you can build a great site, and maintain healthy CSS. Under specify, rather than over specify your entities. The HTML tags are your friend. Many newbies to CSS forget you can use style the tags. Use this to your advantage and only name items you need to name. Good Code div...

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Database Migrations - Lessons from Failure, and Tips for success

http://blog.seid.io/2013/12/12/database-migrations-lessons-from-failure-and-tips-for-success.html

Database Migrations - Lessons from Failure, and Tips for success. Dec 12, 2013 Mike Seid. Late on sunday night, we tried to do a large database migration and failed due to migration performance, forcing a rollback. Four Tips for Easier Migrations. Make sure staging/production hardware and software in in parity. This one seems pretty simple and obvious, but it something that bit us pretty hard. We follow some good practices here, so it didn’t dawn on us that we had different MySQL versions. Well, ...A jum...

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Play Framework 2 HTTP to HTTPS redirect

http://blog.seid.io/2014/01/09/play-framework-2-http-to-https-redirect.html

Play Framework 2 HTTP to HTTPS redirect. Jan 9, 2014 Mike Seid. One good feature of Play Framework is that it doesn’t require an HTTP server in front of it. Play runs netty under the hood and it takes care of the HTTP service. Unfortunately, the play team decided not to support HTTPS currently. So I am using an Amazon ELB (Elastic Load Balancer) to both balance my servers and terminate the HTTPS connections. No need to modify any of your application code. It’s clean and maintains state.

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The next phase - Naytev

http://blog.seid.io/2014/05/20/the-next-phase-naytev.html

The next phase - Naytev. May 20, 2014 Mike Seid. Is the product of a few years work, and figuring out what people desire for their websites, marketing and social needs. Initially implemented as a selling feature of our cause marketing platform, Changecause. Naytev’s technology came from Changecause’s ability to optimize the social posts the platform was issuing. We found that our clients really wanted that feature more than anything so we spun it out into its own product and haven’t looked back since.

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Play! 2 SQL Debugging

http://blog.seid.io/2012/09/25/play-2-sql-debugging.html

Sep 25, 2012 Mike Seid. SQL errors are always a whole lot of fun to debug when you are working with an ORM . To help this, I always have my generated SQL statements logged during development. Add these two lines to your application.conf. Dbdefault.logStatements=true logger.com.jolbox=DEBUG. Short post, hope it helps. My little space on the large internet. Https:/ mike.seid.io.

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Being a Developer in a Large Company

http://blog.seid.io/2014/05/16/being-a-developer-in-a-large-company.html

Being a Developer in a Large Company. May 16, 2014 Mike Seid. It’s easy to get lost and/or detached in big companies. Ther are so many projects going on in many different ares, that it may seem that you and your project is insignificant. Really, its just hard to stay connected. It’s challenging to stay in the loop, and know whats going on outside your project bubble. You have to try to stay connected, and activly network. Booz Allen Hamiltion/Working From Home. Join the Yammer Group. Tell Me More Area.

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Creating a Play! Framework 2 Module

http://blog.seid.io/2012/08/29/creating-a-play-framework-2-module.html

Aug 29, 2012 Mike Seid. As any project grows, it becomes cumbersome to manage, organize and compile your source code as a single project. Play! Framework gives you an easy way to separate your concerns and create reusable modules. Its pretty easy to create a module, heres how. First, A Play! Module is just a play application itself. Defined as a PlayProject, this module is more or less a standalone Play! This is the most common use case for modules, but you can be a whole lot more creative.

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One Problem With Immutable Infrastructure

http://blog.seid.io/devops/scala/2015/08/05/one-problem-with-immutable-infrastructure.html

One Problem With Immutable Infrastructure. Aug 5, 2015 Mike Seid. Dependencies that aren’t hosted by you. We love things being immutable. We develop in Scala and practice immutable infrastructure. For the most part, it works great, until it doesn’t. We were able to work around it by modifying our latest image server images with the our newest code but it wasn’t fun. Overall, I’m still loving our immutable infrastructure but no methodology is perfect. My little space on the large internet.