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PHP and Twilio on Google App Engine 5 Aug 2013 | 11:30 pm
As of Google IO this year, Google App Engine officially supports PHP. While it's still in beta, you can tweak your applications and give it a try right now. I've included some of my lessons learned fr...
Vocabulary for Startups - Part 1 of N 13 Jun 2013 | 06:20 pm
I was recently invited to get an opening talk at Startup Weekend Houston specifically on customer validation. I enjoy developing interview questions and actually talking with potential customers, so i...
CoderFaire Atlanta 2013 11 Apr 2013 | 09:49 pm
Next week I'm headed down to sunny Atlanta to speak at the second CoderFaire. It's a two day event giving people the opportunity to connect across technology communities to learn new stuff and create ...
Advice about Legal Advice 5 Apr 2013 | 11:03 pm
Note: The following is not legal advice.. it is an explanation of legal advice. If you need legal advice, hire an attorney. Earlier this week, a student I'm mentoring asked about my "IP Agreements at...
Sexism in the PHP Community 23 Feb 2013 | 09:32 pm
This blog post heavily quotes my occasional collaborator Cal Evans. The quotes are used with permission. The link to the original is at the bottom. Despite the problems with sexism in the tech commun...
Naming Conventions FTW 1 Feb 2013 | 07:00 pm
When we start projects, we often follow the naming conventions of our frameworks without even thinking about the "Why?" It almost seems silly to ask until you run into a - hopefully, legacy - codebase...
The Problem with Would 22 Jan 2013 | 12:05 am
Over the past decade, I've started, been employed by, and advised a flock of startups. More recently, I've been an advisor at events like Startup Weekend, Lean Startup Machine, and the new Longhorn St...
Beverage Subgroup: The Why and How 14 Jan 2013 | 11:05 pm
Almost six years ago now (whoa!), I was a regular agitator in the Washington, DC PHP Developer's Community (DCPHP). The community was probably a hundred people with skills ranging from total newbs who...
Refactor vs Rebuild: New Years make New Beginnings 7 Jan 2013 | 07:00 pm
We're at that time of year where everyone wants to start something new. We have a flood of articles and blog posts about "what I'm going to do differently this year" and everyone wants to [choose: los...
IP Agreements at Hackathons 22 Jun 2012 | 11:45 pm
Disclaimer: What I share here is personal opinion and analysis and does not necessarily reflect my employer's position or opinion. I was not going to share any of this publicly.. until yesterday. I g...
