Meetup Talk on CakePHP 3.0: The Cake Isn’t a Lie and It Tastes Delicious
I gave this presentation last week at the Las Vegas PHP Meetup, covering some of the new features in CakePHP 3.0. It was a fairly short talk focused mostly on showing off code and some examples of...
View ArticleCakePHP 3.0, Use It In Pieces
One of the key goals of CakePHP 3.0 as discussed recently was making CakePHP 3.0 more decoupled. CakePHP 3.0 has achieved that goal very nicely. Take a look at the CakePHP organization’s repos on...
View ArticleLighting Talk at CakeFest 2015: Projects Are Better When Maintained
At this year’s CakeFest I gave a lighting talk titled “Projects Are Better When Maintained”. Essentially, it was a complaint to be a better maintainer of the open source stuff that you put out. It...
View ArticleThe Word of Notch – On Patents
But there is no way in hell you can convince me that it’s beneficial for society to not share ideas. Ideas are free. They improve on old things, make them better, and this results in all of society...
View ArticleDataGenetics – The Two Egg Problem
You are given two eggs, and access to a 100-storey building. Both eggs are identical. The aim is to find out the highest floor from which an egg will not break when dropped out of a window from that...
View ArticleApp Cubby Blog – The Sparrow Problem
Given the incredible progress and innovation we’ve seen in mobile apps over the past few years, I’m not sure we’re any worse off at a macro-economic level, but things have definitely changed and...
View ArticleUsers’ Pagination Preferences and ‘View All’
When providing a choice of display options, the computer should almost always respect the user’s stated preference and employ it as the default the next time around. I am amazed at how many sites and...
View ArticleHow To Make Your Open Source Project Really Awesome
If you plan on releasing a library as open source, please make sure it has Clear dependency/installation instructions At least one brief documentation guide A change log and tags in the repo Some...
View ArticlePresentation on Unit Testing Inertia
I gave a talk on Tuesday at the Las Vegas PHP Meetup Group titled Unit Testing Inertia. The basis of the talk was getting over the inertia in writing tests in either a pre-existing application or just...
View ArticleMeetup Talk on PHP: The Right Way
Think of this is a continuation of the topic from November (that one a PHP Classes 101), this one focused on the site http://www.phptherightway.com/ and other tools to help developers build PHP apps...
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