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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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  People Who Make Me Feel Stupid: Geoffrey Grosenbach

  03.01.10 | Permalink | 7 Comments

  For this upcoming week I am going to be doing 5 blog posts about developers who have been doing work that makes me feel stupid as a developer. The main reason for this is a week spent on introspection as to not only how I am building applications for my employer but also how I [...]

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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: one year online [...]

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  Shells and Sandboxes

  12.15.09 | Permalink | 2 Comments

  Now that I have become a born-again tester, I’ve started looking at the testing I’m doing at work from more of a high-level point of view. What are tools like SimpleTest and PHPUnit *really* doing? They are providing a mechanism for the automating of running of tests. Such tools also exist for frameworks like Django [...]

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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 web site for my [...]

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