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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”
Here is my latest editorial for the May 2013 issue of php|architect magazine:
Beth Tucker Long
The title alone may get me some hate mail, but anyone who has discussed frameworks with me knows that I’m not shy about saying that I really don’t have a use for them. That’s not to say that I don’t think there’s a time and a place for them, just that for the majority of the projects that I do, a full-fledged framework is way over the top. There is something to be said for having more features than you know what to do with, but there’s also something to be said for not having to slog through 30 files to find what you need – or having to autoload 12 files to do one thing. Continue reading “Who Needs Frameworks?”
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”