Ok, maybe I watch too much reality TV, but I’d like to see a show called “The Coding Apprentice.”
Starting with 18 candidates, each week, they are randomly divided into teams of 2, 3, or 4 (perhaps solo on odd weeks). Then a charity is selected with a need for an application. Each team [...]
The March issue of php|architect came out yesterday. I’m excited to see this issue finally out. I’ve taken over writing the monthly Test Pattern column from Marcus Baker and this issue contains my first column.
Writing doesn’t come easy to me. Writing this blog for the past two years has helped me improve. [...]
James Gosling, the “father of Java,” recently commented on PHP:
“PHP and Ruby are perfectly fine systems,” he continued, “but they are scripting languages and get their power through specialization: they just generate web pages. But none of them attempt any serious breadth in the application domain and they both have really serious scaling and performance [...]
Could this be the manifesto of “Extreme Simplicity?”
10 fundamental rules for the age of user experience technology:
More features isn’t better, it’s worse.
You can’t make things easier by adding to them.
Confusion is the ultimate deal-breaker.
Style matters
Only features that provide a good user experience will be used.
Any feature that requires learning will only be adopted by a [...]
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