What being a foster parent is really like
I wrote this many months ago but never published it. It’s a bit of a rant and I apologize for that. To be honest I don’t really know why I’m publishing it. Maybe it’s
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On the state of software development communities and industry
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The First Annual Report on Programmer Ass-hattery
Taking a cue from TIOBE, where you can take Google search results and make them mean anything that you want them to, I decided that I was going to try an experiment and see
Looking for some interesting work
So, if you remember from one of my earlier posts I had decided to stop working on mobile applications. There were a number of things that I learned from the experience, many of which
Why is FastCGI /w Nginx so much faster than Apache /w mod_php?
I have a new post on using Jetty with PHP-FPM that, if you think this is interesting, you should check that one out. (this post has a sister post on Apache’s event MPM compared to
You gotta know when to fold ’em
As much as I dislike country music Kenny Rogers sure got it right there. I left Zend around May of last year, continuing work through June and did some sporadic work on ZendCon 2012 until it
Dear Twitter, charge us, don’t limit us
A few months ago I left a pretty well paying job at Zend to start developing mobile applications. I still do some work for Zend, but most of what I do during the course
Phonegap and Bootstrap not lovers?
Just a quick post. I’ve been doing some work with Phonegap over the past week, really liking where I was going. One of the reasons was because I was using the Twitter Bootstrap components
10 reasons to use PHP
With my departure from Zend this week I figured now might be a good time to reflect on the past 5.5 years. I will still be working with Zend as a contractor, most specifically
Google Drive
I posted on Twitter a link to an article on CNet about the terms of service for Google Drive. There was a hubbub about this part of the ToS. “Your Content in our Services: When