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 [...]
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: [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
The book is doing quite well, thanks. 42 copies sold as I type this. I am going to give away one of my “Framework Apocalypse” t-shirts to one lucky random customer when I get to 100. Feedback has been great, so spread the word about the book! As Matt Curry pointed [...]
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