Published: March 04, 2015
In PHP, we have two ways of formatting an echo statement: we can choose to use single-quotes or double-quotes. The choice is less dependent upon which side of the Atlantic we learned to read and more dependent upon what we hope to accomplish with echoing that string. If you want to echo the string without parsing it, use single-quotes. Ifā¦
Read more...Published: December 28, 2014
I have moved my site from one domain to another. I was using Wordpress on my old site and was happy. Adding pages was a thing of beauty. Configuring was a dream. Then I wanted to modify my theme. Then I wanted to use some fun HTML5 tags. Then I wanted to minimize hacking vectors. Then I realized that Iā¦
Read more...Published: December 22, 2014
Kata Kata are a series of movements which, when repeated, migrate mindful action into muscle memory. An example kata is performed by Rika Usami of Japan during the 2012 World Karate Championship in Paris. Kata can be thought of in terms of playing an instrument or a craft. During the warmup before a concert, listen to the musicians. They areā¦
Read more...Published: August 15, 2014
I was recently talking with a non-programmer friend of mine about teaching our kids how to code. I told him about my long and winding road to loving programming. He told me that he just doesnāt get how anything so tedious as programming can hold anyoneās interest for more than 5 minutes. Visual design, on the other hand, he findsā¦
Read more...Published: July 28, 2014
We hired a new guy at work. I was officially the new guy for 2 months, now we have someone new. I was given the task to get him up and running since the experience was still fresh for me. Once he got his dev environment going, he would look over my shoulder to watch what I was doing. Atā¦
Read more...Published: May 28, 2014
I recently had the opportunity to take my love of programming from being a hobby to being a career. I jumped at the chance. I am now in my 3rd week of the new job and have yet to go to work. Instead, I meet up with fellow nerds and geek out on programming. I have survived my first agileā¦
Read more...Published: May 06, 2014
I was fortunate to receive a scholarship to attend the 2014 Lone Star PHP Conference in Addison, TX (Dallas metro area) over the April last weekend in April. I just had to get myself there. Thank you, Lone Star PHP and NomadPHP! I enjoyed meeting some of the luminaries of the PHP Renaissance, meeting some of the local PHP aficionados,ā¦
Read more...Published: April 08, 2014
Last week, I gave a short demo of the Atom.io text editor to the Kansas City PHP User Group. I realized after-the-fact that I had presented the early-release as an IDE, when I should have presented it as a fancy text-editor. Coming from using PHPStorm as my primary PHP IDE, Atom seems like a cute, yet unintelligent cousin. I triedā¦
Read more...Published: April 07, 2014
After studying Dart for a month, I wondered which problems Dart was attempting to resolve. I then realized that my knowledge of JavaScript was not good enough to know why Google had created Dart as a JavaScript alternative. As much as I enjoyed Dart, I decided to dive back in to JavaScript with a fresh look. A programmer I respect,ā¦
Read more...Published: March 03, 2014
I am currently feeling a bit of push and pull between at least two different decisions. I have a āwhen you have time for itā project that I am thinking of building in Laravel. I am also interested in learning more about the Dart language with Dartās implementation of Angular.js. Ach! Decisions, decisions. For my study of Laravel, I amā¦
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