You’d never dig a drainage ditch with a pitchfork, or plug a drywall hole with chewing gum. Instead, you’d pick an appropriate tool and you’d use it to accomplish the job (a shovel, or some spackle, for example). So why do software engineers often spend so much time fixing problems with the wrong tools at [...]

John Whitcraft tagged me with the task of writing seven things about myself, and then tagging seven others. Here’s my list.

I’m not classically trained as a computer scientist. I’m actually a political scientist. I learned PHP out of necessity, to solve a particular problem, and it’s become my career.
The very first day I had my [...]