PHP Confessions
Last night on twitter I started this series based on the hashtag #PHPConfessions I’ve never...
How To Do It
Perl There’s more than one way to do it Python There is one way to do it PHP I found a way to do it but it didn’t work....
Dreamhost is incompetent
This site was offline for three days due to the unbelievable incompetence of Dreamhost. There is no excuse for a company in the business of...
Online Audio Is A Poor Format For Learning Code
Saw a link to a “radio show” about Advanced OO Patterns. I thought that was an odd...
PHP Gravatar Class
I was recently working on a small side project when I ran across a need for a php implementation of a class that would produce Gravatar...
Débrouillard
Débrouillard is what every plongeur wants to be called. A débrouillard is a man who, even when he is told to do the impossible, will se...
How To Stand Out
“At each creative decision, ask whether you’re doing it a certain way because...
Explanations are a UX Smell
Have you ever added someone as a “Contact” on Flickr? It’s a confusing experience. The core of the problem is the word...
There is something magical about describing something into existence
It’s hard to explain to someone who hasn’t done it. She asked me how I can take the boredom of just sitting there writing...
CSS, Forms, Borders and Biographies
This is just a bit of internet mix tape of interesting things I’ve read recently: Little CSS...