Robert Stackhouse wrote an excellent article on his blog titled Frameworks as a Means of Creating Transferrable Expertise. I started writing a response in the comments and ended up going off on quite a tangent. Thus, I’ve reposted parts of his article and my responses here, as well as some followup dialog.
It almost seems as [...]
Everytime I think I’m going to unsubscribe from the Lifehacker feed I run across an article I really like that makes me rethink my decision. This time it is an article title Top 10 Tools for a Free Online Education. It covers things such as programming, musical instruments, and languages. When I have some downtime [...]
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. [...]
