on Wed, Feb 08, 2012 by Brandon Harris · 5 min reading time
Some say that the road to hell is paved with good intentions. For a recent project for a client, we decided to upgrade their aging app from 2.3.14 to 3.1.3. Why? A lot of the plugins and gems that we were using were getting stale, and it was getting harder and harder to support the aging setup.
I set out my journey with the fantastic rails_upgrade plugin. I had done several upgrades in the past, and I knew a lot of the pitfalls, but I wasn't quite prepared for what I was about to discover.
Read more →
on Sun, Dec 11, 2011 by Brandon Harris · 4 min reading time
The majority of the world dreams to make more than 100k a year. Yet, in the tech community, we refuse to train those dreamers. Instead we pine after "rockstars" and "ninjas".
I am happy to see the global tech community pay attention to our burgeoning tech community in Austin. The truth is, Austin has been part of the tech community as long as Silicon Valley has existed. I recently had lunch with a startup founder who eloquently pulled me through the trenches of his trek to his current successes.
Read more →
on Wed, Nov 30, 2011 by Brandon Harris · 1 min reading time
Im assuming that as of the writing of this, you arrived here in search of Brandon Harris the wikipedia programmer.
If you happen to be interested in some of the topics that I occasionally post here, please feel free to subscribe or follow me on twitter.
Brandon did an AMA on Reddit
If you are looking to donate to wikipedia (please do!) this is the link that you are looking for
Read more →