I’m a huge fan of Douglas Crockford, this video is well worth your time to watch or listen to in the background: Quality. This is a great story about software development history as well as problems that you might be able to avoid.

The first programming language I learned was Perl. Perl was easy to do many things with and it also allowed me to manipulate text strings. Except that instead of doing it the easy way I would often write very, very convoluted chunks of code in an attempt to get the data into or [...]

I’m probably not the worlds foremost expert in software architecture, but I’m the son of an engineer. A civil engineer. That is to say that he’s nice to most people, and it shows in his engineering, too. Software architecture is something that I understood the least when I was first learning about [...]

Matt Mullenweg asks, “If Microsoft were to buy Yahoo, I wonder if that would have an impact on PHP?” I think that everyone will have to say, “Yes.” on some level. There are two ways that this impact could take place:
1) PHP is challenged to compete with other languages in the market, that’s [...]

I just finished proving my residency as a Colorado state citizen for some continued education. I needed to do this so that I didn’t have to pay out-of-state tuition fees of over $1000.00. While the staff at the Community College were trying to change my status to resident they went through all sorts [...]