Disclaimer
I’ve got a couple disclaimers in writing this. 1. I’m one of the
primary authors of the Zoop Framework for
PHP. It’s pretty much the first web framework
for PHP dating back to 2001. In spite of it’s age it’s still quite
relevant and in use by thous...
I have spent the last few years tweaking and refining my VIM
configuration. This is the ultimate VIM configuration .vimrc file. It is
well organized and documented. It is on
GitHub so you can always grab the
latest. It works well alone, but is intended to be paired with the
plugi...
As part of my new years resolution to get in shape and spend less dough
I decided that I’d be better of walking from Grand Central to my office
on 18th St. I save ~$5 a day not taking the subway and get all the
extra benefit of walking the 1.5 miles.
A few days into this someth...
There’s an old adage “Fast, Cheap, Good; Pick Two”. This situation is
called a magic triangle. You can have two and only two, if you try for
all three you will compromise all three. Fools often try, losing
everything.
In the world of software development, another magic tria...
I’ve been working in the technology industry for the last 16 years. I’ve
learned a lot. I wanted to share the lessons I’ve learned over the past
16 years, I figured one for each year seemed nice. It’s harder to make a
short list than a long one and I had to cut out some h...
As anyone who reads my blog or follows my tweets knows, I’ve been
working for a new startup called
OpenSky since February 2010.
We’ve launched a new ecommerce platform and aim to reinvent ecommerce as
people know it online.
One of the big things we are doing is making it so a...
I came across an article today titled “Help! My boss is on
twitter“.
Allow me to share a secret with you, if you current boss isn’t on
twitter yet, I can guarantee that your next one will be. Social media
has caught on like wildfire. In all the excitement too often people...
I have spent the last few years tweaking and refining my VIM
configuration until I had the Ultimate Vim Config. It is well organized
and documented taking full advantage of Tpope’s
pathogen for a
excellent clean and modular configuration. The Ultimate vim config
contains the...
I’ve used Drupal to power my blog
since I started it over 2 years ago. It has been a bitter sweet
relationship, but in general I’ve been pleased. In those two years,
WordPress as a product has rocketed
past Drupal, and feels much more mature. While Drupal 7 should level the
f...
Every so often a “new” technology catches on. Right now it’s nosql
databases. A couple years ago it was Ruby, before that it was java. Each
arise because they propose a solution to an existing problem, or in
other words a better way of doing something.. something, but not
e...