Since 1992 I’ve been gainfully employed in the IT industry.  My roles have ranged from a C/Unix programmer, to project manager, and most recently web developer.  As a professional, full stack web developer I’m always learning, evaluating, and using new technologies.  Many of them are specific to web services but some are general purpose computing tools.

Since I took a 12 year break from coding to manage projects I understand how frustrating it can be to learn new web technologies.  It often seems the online documentation for open source tools assumes you already know a lot about how web services work.  To bring up your own web server you need to know something about system administration, web server configuration, databases, etc.

Frequently while I’m learning a new tool I run across something that’s poorly explained or not explained at all.  My goal in creating this blog is to help other people get a grip on the technologies I’m learning or have learned since getting back into development in 2013.  Maybe I can help you understand them more quickly than I did?

It’s my sincere hope you’ll find something useful on this blog.  If there are topics you’d like to see covered or specifics you like explained I’d love to hear about them.

Black and white portrait of Doug Couvillion

All the best!

Doug