by Kevin Schroeder | 12:24 pm

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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by Kevin Schroeder | 8:04 am

On the state of software development communities and industry

[Post redacted due to concerns that any tenets deliberated or propositions discussed will be intentionally misrepresented or used as reductio ad ridiculum and may be used as fodder for personal attacks, loss of standing or accusations of misconduct]

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by Kevin Schroeder | 11:39 am

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

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by Kevin Schroeder | 11:35 am

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

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by Kevin Schroeder | 2:40 pm

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

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by Kevin Schroeder | 11:18 am

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

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by Kevin Schroeder | 12:58 pm

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

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by Kevin Schroeder | 3:11 pm

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

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by Kevin Schroeder | 11:05 am

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

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by Kevin Schroeder | 10:08 am

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

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