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

I recently worked on an application I built some time ago. It was built before I had regard for performance or cared about how a MySQL database should be built. As such, it had no indexes.

There’s no such thing as a perfect application…or so they say. That’s why we version, and improve, and add features, and innovate. Nothing is ever perfect.

Cal Evans sent around ratings from ZendCon sessions yesterday, and there seems to be a great deal of debate on Twitter about what they mean. Are they indicators of a person’s suitability to speak? Are they indicators of where a person’s weaknesses are?

I took the weekend off to head back to California and visit my mother for her birthday. It was a wonderful time, and it was a reminder of the need to take time off to rest and relax. Code written by people who are tired and worn out is never as good as code written [...]