Brian Pratt

Deploying an application is hard. Deploying an application that has only one real chance at success, coinciding with a live event that can’t be repeated,...more.

After almost a decade at 8th Light, I still find myself amazed at how often I can go back to find more wisdom in the...more.

When working in a language that’s new to you, it’s important to spend a lot of extra time making sure you are using the correct...more.

If there's anything where opinions amongst my development colleagues differ heavily, it's about the evil of context blocks inside a spec suite. Proponents of nesting...more.

Silent failures are difficult to debug -- not only is the error not noisy and obvious, but it can introduce other errors downstream that may...more.

I remember in my times as a restaurant worker that the management would always give us these rhyming platitudes that were after-school-special cheesy. One of...more.