A Little About Technology – A Little About Life.
Here is my latest editorial for the August 2013 issue of php[architect] magazine:
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Ducks in a Row
“Don’t reinvent the wheel.” “Don’t waste time; use existing libraries.” I can’t even count how many times I have heard this advice in various forms, but reusing code means relying on external resources, and external resources add their own brand of complexity. Continue reading “Ducks in a Row”
Here is my latest editorial for the July 2013 issue of php[architect] magazine:
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Don’t Forget the Front End
Front end development is one of those things that I thought I wouldn’t have to worry about when I became a “real” programmer. Continue reading “Don’t Forget the Front End”
Here is my latest editorial for the June 2013 issue of php[architect] magazine:
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A Group Effort
In a typical day, pretty much everyone on the internet encounters PHP (I’m sure there are a few exceptions), and whether we love them or hate them, some of the biggest websites and software packages are built on PHP. One of the reasons that PHP has had such a success is that it has had a good focused purpose, and it certainly doesn’t hurt that PHP is free and works well with many other common, useful tools. Continue reading “A Group Effort”
We just finished tek13, and it was an amazing time! We hit a few bumps in the road, as all events do, but all in all, everything ran very smoothly. This was the first php[tek] conference with musketeers.me (Kevin Bruce, Oscar Merida, Sandy Smith, Eli White, and myself), and despite having big shoes to fill, I think we nailed it. Continue reading “tek13 Debriefing”