I know I haven’t blogged in a while, but my friend Chris Weldon has spurred me into action with a post of his titled Flexible and Pragmatic Automated PHP Development. As I read this I found myself identifying with a lot of his problems. Chris started out as a PHP developer and recently trained and [...]
I have the luxury of working in an office that does not do cost recovery. We do, however, still have to give our clients time estimates from time to time. It helps us plan out our release cycles and give our customers some expectations. More often than not though, our “estimations” come from clients who [...]
I will be giving a presentation on PHP Unit testing on Thursday for the BCS PHP Users Group. I’m fairly new to the new PHP world (object oriented, well designed PHP apps), but my pursuit of pragmatic programming skills has led me to bring a lot of my .NET experience to the table as well. [...]
Wow. Stop reading this review and go buy this book immediately. It is that good. There are many many reviews of this book out there, so I’m going to be brief. Page for page, this book has had the most impact on my view of programming out of any programming material I’ve ever read.
