When it comes to Web development debates, many experienced developers say there’s no practical difference between PHP and Python (and Ruby, Perl, etc.). I used to hold the same opinion. Until I had to work on some projects to extract TLS information from a website’s SSL certificate. The PHP libraries sucked so hard and were […]
I’ve long see-sawed on the question of MariaDB vs. MySQL, but today I think I’ve crossed the border. It came about when reading up a blog post on MySQL that contained an interesting topic — data masking. The important applications are limited access to the database, GDPR compliance, etc. Fun part? It’s not possible to […]
Having been freelancing for over 4 years now, I believe I can offer some practical advice. Here’s what not to do (at all) when pursuing a freelancing career: Pick up too many skills: This just means, sadly, that you know none of them very well. Work in a hurry: Except for finalizing details and people, […]
Decisions in software–and life, actually–are rarely straightforward. Should you learn a new tech stack or stick to the boring, old, solid one? Is WordPress better or JAMStack? Should you stick to plain old Bootstrap 3 or move on to Bootstrap 4? Will it be a good idea to move from MySQL to MariaDB permanently? And […]
There’s a lot I want to write about. But the whole thought of structuring, expanding, connecting, and what not, when it comes to fleshing out a post, makes me weep. Unless the post is vast in scope, there’s no reason to make it too long. This applies to most of the posts out there, where […]
Much is made of the tech stack in the startup world. “Work with a world-class team of engineers working on the XYZ platform and shape the future of mankind” — so goes a typical hiring pitch for developers. And for good reason. Good developers and talents engineers are driven by the desire to improve. So […]
Ever wondered what type of personalities make up the typical software team? I found a blog recently that did, and has done a pretty amazing job of breaking it all down. Enjoy!
One of the most puzzling things in JavaScript is this. We could begin by explaining what it is, what it does, and what makes it complicated, but this is not a tutorial. This is a rant, and like all good rants, it should begin with an example. 🙂 Let’s write some code for an object […]
There’s a famous saying that two of the hardest problems in computer science are cache invalidation and naming things. When it comes to defining standards, there’s no cache involved, but there is a lot of naming of things. It should come as no surprise, but I recently was shocked to see that the folks who create […]
One of the features in “advanced” PHP you come across is Late Static Binding. There are two things that make this feature very interesting: It is remarkably useful It is extremely poorly explained in the official docs So if you’ve heard of this term the first-time, or like me, have lost a few hair over what […]