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  Snakes and Elephants Playing Nice Together: PHPUnit and py.test with Hudson

  07.29.10 | Permalink | 3 Comments

  These days, it's becoming increasingly harder to find web applications that are homogenous in terms of the tools they use to Get Things Done. The ability to build the web front-end of your site using PHP but a critical part that requires asynchronous processing using Node.js is something that is both exciting and, well, practical. [...]

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  Coding Lessons Learned

  07.21.10 | Permalink | 6 Comments

  In discussions with my friend Kevin, I have come to realize that we have arrived at the same conclusions about the use of web application frameworks. Much of these conclusions have driven from 12+ years in building applications using them, with various rates of success. Suffice it to say, only the most l33t programmers out [...]

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  It’s The Community, Stupid

  05.26.10 | Permalink | 4 Comments

  I had an awesome time at Tek-X in Chicago last week. It was worth the 8 hour drive to get to Chicago from my basement lair. Of course, it helped that the wait at the border was under 10 minutes both times. There were good talks, but even better *people*. A programming language is only [...]

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  Is There A More Practical Approach To TDD?

  03.30.10 | Permalink | 8 Comments

  One of the things I (foolishly perhaps) promised myself when I started up a new project at work was that I was going to use Test Driven Development (or TDD for short). I advocated using a web application framework that supports good testing practices and discussed how it would be beneficial when trying to track [...]

• Rallyhat

  Rallyhat lives!

  03.12.10 | Permalink | 4 Comments

  Some of my long-time readers have seen me mention a long-festering (I believe that is the correct term at this point) project that I dubbed Rallyhat. It first started out as a "figure out when some baseball teams are in town and buy tickets" and then morphed into "a tool for helping people plan road [...]

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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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