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• Chris' Brain

  Where In Chris Reads The Documentation…and Does Not Find The Answer

  02.19.10 | Permalink | 2 Comments

  If you follow me on Twitter you’ve seen me pissing and moaning about not being able to figure stuff out as I build out my first Zend Framework project in a LONG time. 3 years to be exact. I had two things that I wanted to add to the project: (1) a new custom controller [...]

• Chris' Brain

  Open Source Is Really About Documentation – Twisted vs. Tornado

  09.14.09 | Permalink | 27 Comments

  I think I can give you an executive summary of this blog post: if the documentation for an open source project sucks, nobody but the most hardcore developers will use it. What has prompted this incredibly brilliant stating-of-the-obvious? The reaction by those in the Twisted community over Facebook’s pre-emptive strike in the non-blocking Python-based web [...]

• Chris' Brain

  Making Mistakes So You Don’t Have To: Development Tools

  11.17.08 | Permalink | 3 Comments

  I’ve been thinking about topics for conference talk submissions a lot lately (I have a serious case of conference envy the last little while), which usually gets my dev juices going and trying to make a better dev environment for myself. I’ve started using a few newer techniques so forgive me if some of these [...]

• CakePHP

  What Is Really Considered Documentation?

  07.22.08 | Permalink | 8 Comments

  I struggled to come up with a good name for this blog post, and have totally failed, but give this article a chance. Or maybe you’re here by accident thanks to a weird google search. As a committed user of open source technologies, the difference between me using something and not using something is the [...]

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Facebook should've be written in unicornSchemaLang, because everyone *knows* that PHP is no good for anything, right?

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