Matt Mullenweg has a post about Hiring Diversity. A successful software project must fulfill many competing goals and factors and meet a wide variety of challenges. Diversity is the combined arms of software development. In my personal experience, the diverse team performs better. A diverse team allows the [...]
Software Development Team Diversity
March 26th, 2007Dependency Injection in PHP
June 26th, 2006The June issue of PHP Architect is out. My column this month is on dependency injection, a topic which I’ve been warming up to lately.
First there was CORBA. Then insane complexity of CORBA was supplanted by the intolerable complexity of EJB. Influenced by an agile mindset and the power of Unit testing, [...]
The Evolution of Design Patterns
January 31st, 2006Rebecca Wirfs-Brock suggests that it may be time for the GoF Design Patterns book to be refreshed. She points out that the C++ and graphics programming examples may be less relevant to today’s C# and Java programmers. She implies that state of the art has advanced in the twelve years since the book [...]
Delicious Outage Link Dump
December 19th, 2005Del.icio.us has been down for a while. I use it for my public bookmarks, which are listed on the side of this blog. Here is a post with some recent random things that I would bookmark if I could.
The departure of the hyper-enthusiasts – “The Java hyper-enthusiasts have left the building” (along [...]
Code Coverage, Feedback and Open Source
October 4th, 2005I’ve long wondered about the quality and extent of the PHP test suite. During my posting hiatus, John Coggeshall addressed my question by posting a coverage report generated by running the test suite. Unless I am mistaken, he also implies that the report will at some point become automated and available at http://cov.php.net/. [...]
Why isn’t PHP the natural successor to Java?
September 29th, 2005Loud thinking declares that Java has lost its aura of invincibility. Jason Hunter sums it up nicely:
Ruby on Rails today looks poised to eat Java’s mindshare on the web tier. If not Rails, then something else.
It does seem like Java’s mindshare is on the decline, along with sun’s fortunes. There is some evidence that [...]
Expert and Novice Programmers
May 10th, 2005An article on Java World, Hiring the phantom Java architect, sparked an interesting debate at the server side regarding what it means to be a developer versus an architect. I very much dislike the term architect and like to think of this instead in terms of programming skill level.
Cognitive science research on problem solving [...]
php testing and coverage
April 8th, 2005I ran across this O’Reily article about SpikeSource today. Very interesting.
They have released a coverage reporting tool, Spike PHP Coverage, for PHP that works with XDebug coverage data. It works with Simple Test and it seems to be able aggregate the results of remote test runs, such as for web based tests. [...]
Knocked off the internet, a story of Windows and Macintosh
March 15th, 2005This weekend the internal modem in my Mac died. Living in a rural area, I am a dialup user. Let me say that getting unexpectedly disconnected from the internet is very traumatic.
I’ve been following an iterative development cycle where I deploy to my client’s site every Friday. (My old ERP colleagues would [...]
Shipping Software is fun
March 3rd, 2005Mark Lucovsky blogs about why he left Microsoft for Google (via John Lim). He talks about how code at Microsoft has to rot in a CVS repository for years before shipping, while web based companies such as Google and Amazon can deploy almost instantly.
I have to agree with the sentiment. I quit my [...]
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