Once upon a time I answered a question on LinuxQuestions, a slow, ugly website that uses vBulletin–your average, run-of-the-mill, commercial, PHP-based forum software. I couldn’t just answer the question, I had to create an account, and give them an email address. Without warning, they started sending me weekly emails, reminding me how awesome they are, [...]
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Getting Things Done
I work at a very small software company that has as clients other small businesses. We do custom software. In 2010 that means we do web development. We bid on projects, complete the projects we get, fix any bugs for free for 6 months, and charge a very competitive hourly rate for new features. We [...]
My Programming Language Wish-List
I write custom software for a living. It’s usually fun, sometimes challenging, often tedious, but overall gratifying in a number of ways. One of these ways is that I get to be creative and build my own tools that help me write better software that is quicker to write, easier to support, and is more [...]
Web / PHP Dev Tools
I currently work for a small software development company that primarily does web development for a traditional LAMP stack where the P stands for PHP. The reason that we primarily work with this stack is because it is a common denominator among web hosting. Customers like it because they can deploy it anywhere, even cheap [...]
Simple web project file management.
I have noticed when working on my own projects outside of work I tend to put files haphazardly in various folder in my home directory. Now that I am starting to work on web related projects, I needed to come up with a sane system for file management. This is an outline of how I [...]