Omega Vortex is Sponsoring Misfit Animal Rescue
We’ve been involved with Misfit Animal Rescue for a little while now. Back in December, my wife really wanted to adopt a dog because we were moving out of our small apartment and into a bigger home. After looking around on the internet for a while, she ran across our dog and felt such a … Read more
Who are your heroes?
Today is Mother’s Day and Father’s Day is next month, and the thought occurred to me while I was napping this afternoon that I have a lot of people who I look up to. My heroes, if you will. Obviously, the heroes in my personal life are the members of my family and friends that … Read more
Plan Tomorrow Today
I’ll say that the best productivity hack that I’ve run across so far is having a plan for tomorrow before you go to sleep today. Making a simple list of things you want to accomplish right before bed and being able to quickly knock a couple off right at the beginning of the day sets … Read more
I Have a Personality Conflict with Typical Managers
I left home at a pretty early age to go take my first “professional” programming job out in Colorado. Prior to that, I had some modest success (for a teenager) doing freelance web development work. I’m from Alabama and I had never lived on my own, so it was a pretty crazy move to uproot … Read more
Quick Tip: Prefer Source Downloads with Composer
Today, I was having an issue connecting to GitHub’s Code Distribution Servers to download packages using Composer. GitHub repositories are available, so that means we can still get the code by using the –prefer-source option on composer install. Also, since you’re cloning repositories when you prefer source, you also get around the API Rate Limiting … Read more
Using Composer with Symfony2 and Doctrine on Pagoda Box
About Pagoda Box Pagoda Box is a Platform as a Service (PaaS) that takes a lot of the work out of managing your PHP infrastructure. If you’ve ever worked with Heroku, Engine Yard, or other similar PaaS providers, you’ll be pretty familiar with how this all works. At Omega Vortex, we use Pagoda Box when developing … Read more
May: The Month of Sane Sleep
Some of you that know me and my habits are probably aware that I keep a very irregular sleep schedule. It varies wildly and sometimes makes it hard to get things done due to sleeping half the day away. It’s pretty rare that I get more done on average at night than I do during … Read more
I’m Doing It Wrong
I read your blog, but I don’t think you rehashed enough info or reworded what your company does enough to appeal to your Facebook followers. You had too many insightful and thoughtful comments. That’s not what blogs are supposed to be, apparently. You’re doing it wrong. Stop having a brain. People don’t want to see that. … Read more
Make Use of Resources Available Today
My business partner and I had a really good conversation recently regarding resources that our business has access to right now that we’re not utilizing effectively. To give a little bit of background, Omega Vortex does general technical consulting. Our organization has a pretty wide breadth of skills available from design to development to IT … Read more
Full Reset: Blogging Again
I think that it’s about time I start getting back into some more productive, long-form writing again. Twitter and Facebook have done a lot to cause me to move away from thinking critically and writing in exchange for publishing quick, short blasts of random thoughts. I’d much rather put together more informative renditions of the … Read more
