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  People Who Make Me Feel Stupid: Fabien Potencier

  03.05.10 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  This is the final in a series of blog posts about programmers who make me feel stupid due to the amazing work they’ve done and their ability to explain it. Check out my thoughts on Geoffrey Grosenbach, Antirez, Rich Hickey and Ezra Zygmuntowicz.
  I am, for lack of a better phrase, a framework whore. [...]

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  Who Cares What I Think?

  01.08.10 | Permalink | 5 Comments

  So we’re at a natural point for reflection. It’s the start of a new year *and* the start of a new decade. Despite my wife rolling her eyes talking about this, it is an incredibly exciting time to be involved in web development. Internet time is like dog time, in my opinion: [...]

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  Chris’ Brain – Almost October 2009 Edition

  09.24.09 | Permalink | 4 Comments

  Can you tell I have nothing earth-shattering to talk about? Here are the two things taken up processing space in my brain
  I won’t use frameworks without built-in testing support any more

  I’m doing some very hairy refactoring of code at work to support a new concept of ownership of content generated by the application. [...]

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  Laziness vs. Efficiency

  05.21.09 | Permalink | 8 Comments

  Joel Moss (a fellow member of the CakePHP community) has been acting like a bit of a Rails (and Ruby) fanboi as of late. He’s doing a series of blog posts proclaiming his love for Ruby. Personally, I loved Rails when I first encountered it. Played around with it. Wrote a [...]

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  Chris’ Brain – 2009-02-18

  02.18.09 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  Book is getting close
  Circle March 9 on your calendar, as that is the day my book “Refactoring Legacy Applications Using CakePHP” as the day it will be released. I will be offering a PDF version and a print-on-demand version via Lulu.com. It looks like the PDF with be $10 or less, with the [...]

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