This is a list of books currently on my To Read shelf... literally. I do not suggest or anti-suggest any of them at this time as I haven't read them yet.
Current Efforts:
Blue Parabola, LLC
HubAustin
web2Project
PHP'ers:
Cal Evans
Eli White
Elizabeth Naramore
Joe LeBlanc
Matthew Turland
Matthew Weier O'Phinney
Planet PHP
Tony Bibbs
Business/mISV:
Bob Walsh
Eric Sink
Joel Spolsky
Micah Baldwin
Paul Graham
Past Projects:
CodeSnipers
HOBY
Judicial Watch
mobile FoxNews.com
NRTW
Great Tools I use:
Drupal
GitHub
NetBeans for PHP
phpUnit
Subversion
Zend Framework
This is not the home of dotProject or web2project. It is the home of CaseySoftware, LLC. Any dotProject support questions should be referred to their support forums.
Previously, I've talked about what I consider to be the first two rules of software development:
The first rule was simple "Don't Trust the Users" and seems to have been pretty well unanimous from around the community, especially from security folks. My second rule - "Consistency" - was a little less clear but tends to focus on doing the same thing the same way every time... until you learn a better way. It doesn't matter whether it's Coding Standards, security, etc. Doing it the same way helps people understand. Which
I've struggled with the best way to present this point and have just decided to say it.
The Third Rule of Software Development is:
Someone is probably smarter.
Almost every day, someone passes me a link to a study or article worth a chuckle and then gets prompty filed away or deleted. It's not that the thought it unwanted or unappreciated, just that they often don't elicit further thought. Late last week, I received a link that was just the opposite.
Dennis McDonald - a Northern Virginia local that I've talked with a number of times - has released the preliminary findings of his study entitled "Blogging and Project Management". Both as a long-time blogger and as someone building and working with Project Management tools (*cough*web2Project*cough), I found his initial discoveries useful. Some of the findings were what you'd expect but some of the questions and comments that popped out at me were interesting:
Yes, I've already sent these to Dennis, maybe he'll have/gain insight to share with the rest of us. I look forward to the full report. In the meantime, the preliminary findings are available.
One of the single best things and single worst things about PHP is the PHP Manual.
It's complete, is always up to date, specifies when commands became available, and has a huge amount of commentary and tips spanning the past few years. Quite often I get more from the comments than the actual entry... There are parts of the Manual that I use far more than any others... like the formatting parameters that date() takes. I remember the basics, but it seems that I almost never use the basics. I use this page so much that it's always in my browser history and I've considered adding it to my toolbar.
Unforutnately, the downside is that unless you know the keywords or related topics that you're looking for, you don't have a chance of finding it. The onsite search is sufficient for exact/partial terms but mediocre at best for anything close. A long time ago, I gave up and relied on Google for that heavy lifting.
Well, due to the brave efforts of one of the DCPHP'ers - Jason Lefkowitz - we have an alternative in MyPHPDocs.com. The site lets you click and drag the portions of the manual that are the most important to you, hit a button, and voila. You have your own manual. The best thing is that the tool isn't copying content from the site. You don't have to worry about getting out of date because it effectively acts as a page of bookmarks to the core manual.
I believe that part of what defines a person is what they do when they fail or make mistakes. This goes for personal mistakes and systemic problems. Everybody makes some mistakes, but what do they do when they realize it?
I recently received an email from a friend who was excited about an upcoming interview. We talked about the company a bit and it sounded interesting. Then he went to the interview and took some notes on how they meet the criteria of the Joel Test and they got a miserable 4.
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