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Affirmative Wager 7 Mar 2013 | 07:42 pm
There’s a very risky — but important — conversation that takes place in our community from time to time. It’s about gender and sexism. To be honest, I’m scared to write about this for fear that someth...
Web developer 29 Oct 2012 | 07:23 pm
Over the weekend, I saw a discussion on Twitter about a particular developer who is worried about his future as PHP becomes less the de facto platform for all web development, and he moves to other te...
MongoDB Elections 26 Oct 2012 | 07:29 pm
On Monday of this week, Amazon’s EC2 service suffered a major outage, which they call “performance issues”, which we all know is simply not true. This is not a post about how Amazon has failed us. Ev...
Berliner Weiße 21 Jun 2012 | 07:21 am
I think this is the first piece I’ve written on my blog that is tagged only “beer”; apologies to my readers who don’t care about such things (there are feeds for PHP and Web as well, if you’d prefer t...
Deploy on push (from GitHub) 4 Jun 2012 | 10:35 pm
Continuous deployment is all the rage right now, and I applaud the use of systems that automate a task that seems way easier than it is. That said, sometimes you need something simple and straightfor...
Lexentity 30 May 2012 | 01:57 am
A very long time ago (three and a half livers ago), I wrote a little utility to help us with the 2008 edition of PHP Advent. The utility is called Lexentity, and my recent blogging uptake made me real...
Use `env` 22 May 2012 | 02:31 am
We use quite a few technologies to build our products, but Gimme Bar is still primarily a PHP app. To support these apps, we have a number of command-line scripts that handle maintenance tasks, cron ...
PHP as a templating language 15 May 2012 | 03:06 am
There’s been quite a bit of talk, recently, in PHP-land about templates and the ramifications of enforcing “pure” PHP scripts by preventing scripts from entering HTML mode. I’m not quite sure how I fe...
Natural Load Testing 8 May 2012 | 02:57 am
My friend Paul Reinheimer has put together an excellent product/service that is probably of use to many of you. The product is called Natural Load Testing, and it harnesses some of the machinery that...
Ideas of March 16 Mar 2012 | 01:50 am
A year ago, I posted about Ideas of March, which Chris got rolling. In it, I pledged to blog more. Today, I am not so proud to say that I have mostly failed to do so. If I had to come up with a reas...
