As bloggers, sometimes we make mistakes. This isn’t my best work. However, the comments hold many great suggestions that are worth keeping around for posterity. This post is superceeded by Really, Always Return Something.
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Tuesday, March 12th, 2013 @ 7:00 am | Comment (20) | Categories: Debugging, General PHP, PHP
I like the beginning of a new year because it provides the perfect place to consider what happened last year and what I can do this year. In evaluating 2012, I’ve come to the realization that as a software developer, I need to “up my game” somewhat. Though I consider myself to be a great developer, I want to be even better, work even ahrder and share even more with the communities that care about the topics I care about. Software development is an art form, and I want to perfect it in 2013.
Thursday, January 3rd, 2013 @ 7:00 am |
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Categories: General PHP
Tags: Mozilla, resolutions, weekly tips, speaking, PHP
Ten months ago when I started at Mozilla, I began transitioning away from PHP and into Python and Django. This was inevitable: the Mozilla Webdev team favors Python over PHP in almost every webapp (Socorro is the critical exception). However, over time I had become disillusioned with the direction that PHP was taking. The project seemed stalled, lost in the woods, drifting on a sea of uncertainty.
After seeing Rasmus Lerdorf speak about the future of PHP for 2012, my perspective has changed dramatically. You can see his talk here.
Thursday, February 2nd, 2012 @ 10:23 pm |
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Categories: General PHP, Software Development
Tags: understanding, rasmus, foundations, purpose, history, future, 5.4, 5.3, PHP
Last week, I began working on something that didn’t pan out. For whatever reason, I went down the wrong path, and ultimately abandoned the task I was working on. In discussing it with my boss, he mentioned to me that it was better to realize early on that something wouldn’t work than to trudge onward, insisting that it be finished due to the “sunk cost” of the time already spent.
This got me thinking about how often we consider the “sunk cost” in our decision-making process, especially when it comes to our software development.
Monday, May 10th, 2010 @ 7:00 am |
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Categories: General PHP, Opinion, Technology
Tags: development, refactoring, fallacy, sunk cost, rewriting
Anyone who knows me knows that when I talk about the model, I’m usually talking about Propel. I’ve liked Propel ever since I started working with it in the middle of last year; I personally find it easier and more fun to use than Doctrine or other ORMs available today. I was excited to see recently that Propel’s development team had released Propel 1.5 as a beta, with a launch of the new features to come soon.
There are a couple new features in Propel 1.5 that I think are going to be pretty awesome additions. Here are my two favorites:
Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010 @ 10:58 pm |
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Categories: Technology, General PHP
Tags: Propel, model, MVC, beta release
There’s been lots and lots of discussion regarding the Facebook “Hyper PHP” release of HipHop for PHP. This new technology is an in-production converter for PHP that takes PHP code, converts it into C++ code, and creates a complete binary that can be run on a server natively. Facebook claims improvements of up to 50%, and their model represents a shift in thinking about scripting languages like PHP.
Ostensibly, lots of people are going to be thinking about how this will benefit them and their organizations. Here are some thoughts on who will benefit and who will not benefit.
Tuesday, February 2nd, 2010 @ 8:31 pm |
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Categories: General PHP, Technology
Tags: HipHop for PHP, hyper PHP, PHP 5.2
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