Recently, I needed to put together some screen shots of output from a custom ads plugin I was working on. During the testing, I had several user accounts that all had various real email addresses of mine. I obviously didn’t want these in the demo shots, but I didn’t really want to go edit all […]

I was hanging out in the Laravel #Slack channel (as I frequently am) and saw somebody post the following about frameworks (PHP vs JS): I was advised to master one and be better than everybody at it. It made me think about how potentially crippling it could be to actually try to be “the best” […]

For those who don’t know, I work remotely for a Japan-based company called Delfi-Net.  Every day at 9am Japan time, we have Standup — a call to discuss what’s going on and for each team member to bring others up to speed with our various projects.  This is all normal and happy for most developer types. […]

I’ll start by telling you that I’m an old developer by most visible standards.  When I started with PHP 3  after coming from Perl, register_globals was considered a good thing and articles online would tout how easy it was to deal with form vars because of it.  Fast forward a bunch of years and the […]

I’ve been coding PHP for several years now.  Granted, I’ve learned a lot by taking apart other people’s scripts and applications over the years, but there is still no substitute for reading the manual! It may seem boring or a waste of time, but if you want to be good, take some time at least […]