Dissecting personalities on a software team
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!
this, that, and everything else
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 […]
Function naming is hard (even PHP-FIG gets it wrong)
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 […]
WTF is Late Static Binding in PHP?
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 […]
The pointless PHP vs. Node debate
Imagine a million transactions a month. Okay, 10 million. Assuming it’s a company that sells products, and the typical order size is $50, we’re talking of $500 million in monthly revenue. Or $6 billion annual. That’s big deal. Very few businesses reach that level. Now, also asuume that the order flow is evenly distributed during […]
Biases and improvement
The biggest hurdle to your improvement as a software developer are your biases. The idea that React/Angular/Vue/Backbone are somehow superior to other alternatives; the idea that Python is a much more robust web development language than PHP; the idea that PostgreSQL is the only sensible relational database out there; the idea that nothing matches the […]
Laravel: How many controllers are too many?
Recently, in a phone interview for a remote positions, this post of mine was called out by the interviewer. His comment was, more or less, that it was stupid to worry about the number of controller in an MVC application. He said that putting logic in controller is a very bad practice, and that I should […]
When not to work for a startup [for developers]
These days, startups have a charm that only Paris can rival. They are painted as the far-off, blessed lands where creativity, money, and benefits are flowing freely, and no conformity exists. If you’re a developer, you have dreamed of working for a startup at least once already. Well, sometimes it’s not a good idea. Please […]
Correctly setting up October CMS through Composer on Ubuntu 16.04
(Sorry I’m in a real hurry as I write this. I’ll expand on this later, but today I figured out how to correctly set up October CMS through composer. Hope this helps somebody.) (To-do: A post on why care about October CMS) $ composer create-project october/october myapp $ cd myapp $ php artisan october:env $ […]
Choosing the right tech stack for development [for developers]
If you’re a progressive software developer and do not spend a few hours worrying about which tech stack to choose next, you’re lying. We all do it. In fact, combined with the famous Impostor Syndrome, this constant anxiety is enough to break anyone’s back. Laravel or Symfony? Node or Go? React or Angular? Ember or […]