TEK Webcast Notes
Wednesday, April 21st, 2010Last Friday, I did a webcast as a part of the PHP TEK Webcast series. The webcast was on Caching for WordPress. We had a good turnout, and there were lots of questions about the best plugins to use for WordPress caching.
7:00 am | Comment (3) | Print | Categories: Best Practices, ConferencesCaching For WordPress – A TEK-X Webinar
Wednesday, April 14th, 2010Anyone who has worked with WordPress knows that it’s greatest strength is also one of it’s greatest weaknesses: it’s architecture. The same architecture that makes it easy to include literally hundreds of plugins also makes it slow, resource-intensive and bulky. Unlike Drupal, WordPress doesn’t have a built-in caching mechanism. What is a developer to do?
11:17 am | Comment (2) | Print | Categories: Best Practices, Community, ConferencesThe Registry Pattern Reexamined
Friday, March 26th, 2010Last July, I wrote about the registry pattern and some of its advantages. These advantages include the ability to access objects across different areas of your application, and the storage of objects for later retrieval.
7:00 am | Comment (15) | Print | Categories: Best Practices, Object-Oriented DevelopmentThe 15 Minute Rule Of Software Development
Thursday, March 18th, 2010I talk a lot about how having a spec is a critical component of software development. But how do you know that your spec is good, and that it has been developed enough? Simply put, how do you distinguish between a good spec and a spec that is lacking?
7:00 am | Comment (4) | Print | Categories: Best Practices, OpinionWhy Active Record Isn’t A Bad Design Pattern
Tuesday, March 16th, 2010Were I writing this as an article for a newspaper, the subhead would be “Design Patterns Don’t Cause Application Slowness.” The point of this piece isn’t to defend Active Record per se; it’s to discuss the fact that design patterns aren’t to blame for your application’s problems, and more to the point, design patterns aren’t [...]
9:00 am | Comment (9) | Print | Categories: Best Practices, Object-Oriented Development, System Architecture
Web developer, amateur photographer, lover of the outdoors and travel. Expect to find me writing code, hiking or visiting new places. I own Blueprint DC and live in Washington, DC. Follow Me On Twitter!- July Slides
- Some Thoughts On Software Licensing
- Interfaces Make Testing Easier
- Revisiting: Why Every Developer Should Write Their Own Framework
- The Fallacy of Sunk Cost
- PHP: The Good Parts – Book Review
- 1st Amendment, Meet 4th Amendment: The Gizmodo Search Warrant
- A Closer Look At ArrayObject
- TEK Webcast Notes
- Caching For WordPress – A TEK-X Webinar
