Ugh. I didn’t want to write a blog post about this, mostly because I intend to stay away from political issues on this blog. I hate politics and I really hate that send enough money to the Federal government to buy a new car each year so they can spend it on things that get [...]
Earlier today, more for my own interest, I asked the question on Twitter “What programming rules should you ALWAYS follow, regardless of the scenario you’re working in?” In other words, are there programming rules that you ALWAYS should follow. It doesn’t matter if it’s a script to copy a bunch of files for a one [...]
Eli White posted an article by Eric Paley. It’s called The Curve of Talent and I’m posting it because it’s, simply, really good. I get asked, quite frequently, about how people can be better programmers. Why they’re asking me, I have no idea. But what I usually tell them is to be curious and be [...]
“When Alexander saw the breadth of his domain, he wept for there were no more worlds to conquer.” Hans Gruber Perhaps I am more contemplative when I wake at 3:00 and can’t get back to sleep. I was up for a good reason, feeding a beautiful little girl my wife and I are fostering (I [...]
Today on twitter there was a conversation going on about the responsiveness of the core PHP developers to PHP users. The conversation went as follows (I believe that all the tweets here were in response to the overall question, though I may be wrong on a few). @jwage: Soo, who thinks PHP should be on [...]
The best developers hit “Refresh”? No. Well, yes, but that’s not what I was referring to. F5 is what you hit in Zend Studio/PDT to “Step Into” during a debug session. A LOT of developers just look at an API, or code completion, write to it, commit, deploy and they’re done. I have found that [...]
I watched the movie Pollock, not to be confused with Potluck, and I came away with an interesting impression. In the movie Jackson Pollock, portrayed by the under-estimated Ed Harris, was a starving artist until he tried a new technique where he basically splatters paint onto a canvas. If I remember the reasoning behind it [...]
On Chris Shiflett’s blog he asks the question why we don’t blog more. For myself a lack of blogging usually means I’m working on code. I take what could be called the Pauline method of technology evangelism; meaning that the evangelism is almost secondary. It’s a continuation of what what I do. I love writing [...]
Another question for you. What do you for configuration management? Ini files? PHP Code? Yml? Do you have it as part of your deployment process? Hand-code in production? And, do you like your configuration management mechanism?
A few weeks ago Twitter was a storm of activity around the TIOBE index. PHP had dropped two spots having been overtaken by Python and C++. Most of the activity was not from the PHP side. Having used the TIOBE index myself I was a little surprised to see PHP drop so suddenly. So I [...]