On Constructive Criticism
Last week at php|tek 2009, there were numerous sessions on improving your development practices. There were some focused on better…
Category: Developer Experience
The Second Rule of Software Development
Recently, I wrote about The First Rule of Software Development. While it's central tenant is complete and covers the main…
You might be a developer…
Since I started my career in software development, I've read and reviewed code in a variety of languages. In each…
The First Rule for Software Development
Recently I taught a class of bright-eyed, bushy-tailed PHP’ers just getting their start in the world. They haven’t done their…
Defending Against the 2nd Worst Developer
A few months ago, I heard an interesting idea about the 2nd Worst Developer. It's wrapped up in a simple…
If I had more time…
One of the more famous T.S. Eliot quotes is: "If I had more time, I would have written a shorter…
Managing Technical Debt
Technical debt is simply: The amount of time, money, or effort it takes to work around, manage, and fix bad…
Innovation and Frameworks
This past weekend after my web2project presentation at NoVaLUG, we ended up in a side discussion on languages, frameworks, etc. …
Another Reason for Encapsulation
Everyone knows the common reasons for Encapsulation… It hides the implementation. It hides the data from prying eyes who might…
Credit Card Information and You
It seems that at least once a week, I have a customer or see another developer ask a simple question:…