James Gordon

Software engineer. Motorsport enthusiast.

[James Gordon @jamesggordon]

I just made the switch to @useblacksmith after discovering their marketing claims are actually true! The automated tests for a large PHP app were taking 14:15 with an 8 core machine on Github. The same workflow only takes 5:22 on a 4 core machine with Blacksmith. Seriously good!

[James Gordon @jamesggordon]

Yasss! Good to see AWS getting rid of security challenge questions. Such an annoying mechanism and utterly unnecessary in this day and age of U2F, passkeys, etc.

[James Gordon @jamesggordon]

Hey @Bupa - do you guys realise your new digital identity sign-up process in Australia has been down all day? Getting a 500 error at the last step on a POST request to https://t.co/rPLrLjGdkO. A bit disappointing considering how expensive premiums are these days. 🫤

[Tim MacDonald @timacdonald87]

If you are an Australian business hoping to hire top Laravel talent, sponsoring @LaraconAU is you chance to get in front of some of the best Laravel developers going.

You know what to do…

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[James Gordon @jamesggordon]

Million dollar idea: an AI that answers all my robo calls.

[The Shovel @TheShovel]

"When big businesses are announcing record profits, the best way to respond is to push Julie and Trevor from Werribee to the brink" - Full details: https://t.co/GARQORyjrv

[James Gordon @jamesggordon]

@CFDevelop PHP and either Symfony or Laravel. PHP is a great language these days and both of these frameworks offer great ORM options, awesome testing capabilities and tons of libraries for improving the quality of the APIs.

[James Gordon @jamesggordon]

Dear front-end devs: can you PLEASE remove spaces from phone numbers and credit card numbers before applying validation on forms. Failing validation because of spaces (esp. trailing spaces) is completely pointless and creates unnecessary frustration and friction for the user.🤬

[Christian Findlay @CFDevelop]

#Microservices are a mistake for most teams

[James Gordon @jamesggordon]

@cmack4life For sure

[James Gordon @jamesggordon]

Hadn't used eBay for a while and forgot just how greedy they were. I recently sold two items for $281 in total and they charged me $74 in fees. 😬 And then they have the hide to pepper their site with frickin’ pop-up ads, greatly impeding usability. Unbelievable!

[Mark Dalgleish @markdalgleish]

I got into coding professionally because I like coding. My career plan is to do some coding.

[I Am Devloper @iamdevloper]

“This has been a particularly hard week” - what you say every single week for 2 years working at a startup

[James Gordon @jamesggordon]

People will let you know how they really want a piece of software to work the moment they start using it.

[James Gordon @jamesggordon]

Software company: "We sell _____ that allows you to save money by automating this expensive, repetitive and time-consuming manual process".

Me: "You're into automation - that's great! So I assume you've automated all your software testing too?"

Software company: "Nah."

[Dean. @dean_mcpherson]

I was today years old when I found out this existed chrome://site-engagement

[Eduard Sizov @eduardsi]

– We don't write tests.
– Why?
– Because we don’t have time for it.
– Why?
– Because there is too much work and pressure.
– Why?
– Because we don’t move fast enough.
– Why?
– Because changing software has become difficult and risky.
– Why?
– Because we don’t write tests.

[Jeff Byrd @jeff_byrd]

@SimpsonsOps When the dev team finally retires the unsupportable monolith but replaces it with a bunch of unsupportable microservices

[James Gordon @jamesggordon]

I was browsing around for a good network auditing tool for my home network and stumbled on a page on https://t.co/5fsNoY6ElR recommending SolarWinds as the best network security auditing tool. Nah, I don't think I'll be installing that any time soon!