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php | tek Wrapup

May 26th, 2008

I really enjoyed myself at this year’s php | tek. The conference seemed even better than last year. Here are the slides from my talks…

Exceptional PHP
Coding for Success: Writing Software You’ll Be Able To Understand Next Month

Here are some of the books I mentioned…

Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code
php|architect’s Guide to PHP [...]

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Managing Open Source Projects

February 22nd, 2007

I ran across How Open Source Projects Survive Poisonous People (video) and Producing Open Source Software (book). Anyone know of any other interesting open source project management resources?

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Looking forward to 2007

January 4th, 2007

Well, I’m finally back in town after the holidays. Let me tell you, I’m glad to be home. Between multiple holidays and taking my grandma to her cancer treatments in Ann Arbor, I was gone far too much of last month.
My Grandma is doing well. They used an experimental new procedure called [...]

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The Paradox of Choice

July 13th, 2006

I don’t like to just link to stuff, but outsourcing choice at 37 signals is worth linking to. The post talks about designing interfaces with fewer choices. Really, the interesting thing here is Barry Schwartz and his book, The paradox of Choice. The paradox of choice being that having more choices makes [...]

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The Evolution of Design Patterns

January 31st, 2006

Rebecca 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 [...]

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PHP Book sales trends versus Java and Ruby

December 8th, 2005

O’Reilly radar has an interesting graph of 2004 versus 2005 book sales for a variety of languages. The big news is that Ruby books sales are up 1552% and Java book sales are down 4%. This would be consistent with my observations from Why isn’t PHP the natural successor to Java. A [...]

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