A day of road-blocks for a software developer

Recently I had one of those "nightmare" days for a software developer where I was simply trying to complete one small task, and it ended up taking half a day due to a rabbit hole of problems. I had assigned myself a single issue/ticket in JIRA that I thought would be pretty easy to complete.

Updating a 301 permanent redirect

If you change the URL for a 301 redirect (at least a redirect powered by NGINX), the browser does not respect the new URL. This appears to be because the browser caches the

Setting up a Java development VM with VirtualBox

I decided to setup a Linux development environment so I could separate my .NET development work from Java development work. Here are the steps I took (with some trial and error along the