The Fallacy of Sunk Cost
Monday, May 10th, 2010Last 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, [...]
7:00 am | Comment (2) | Print | Categories: General PHP, OpinionTaking A Look At Propel 1.5
Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010Anyone 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 [...]
10:58 pm | Comment (3) | Print | Categories: General PHPHipHop For PHP: Who Benefits, Who Doesn’t
Tuesday, February 2nd, 2010There’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%, [...]
8:31 pm | Comment (12) | Print | Categories: General PHPBe Wary of User Contributed Notes
Monday, November 23rd, 2009This morning, I was reviewing the weekly list of topics with the most comments throughout the PHP manual, and I stumbled upon the following code in the documentation for the date() function. This code is designed to tell you the day of the week for any valid date you give it:
1:00 am | Comment (12) | Print | Categories: General PHPWhy Every Developer Should Write Their Own Framework
Friday, November 6th, 2009Lots of people have the itch to write their own frameworks. They think that they can do better than Zend, Cake, Symfony, or application-level frameworks like Drupal. They’re convinced that those designers and developers made fatal flaws, and they can improve upon them. They’re just itching to give it a shot. So for those of [...]
1:00 am | Comment (38) | Print | Categories: General PHP, 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
