Windows and PHP are snowballs. Respect them.
A young developer newly embedded in the enthusiast programmer community could be forgiven for believing certain truths to be self-evident: that most people use Apple computers. That most websites are…
Your Code is My Hell
It occurred to me recently that my experience as a Rails developer may be somewhat unique. I often get brought in to help preexisting Ruby/Rails projects evolve and mature in…
Writing Facades on Legacy Code
h2. The Setup Let’s say we have a system in production which manages college financial aid departments. Over the years it has accumulated a fairly complex object model for handling…
Doctor, it hurts when you say that
bq. In your response, for instance, you say “I prefer thinking before writing code.” Well, so do I, but the fact of the matter is some people don’t and some…