web development war stories from the frontlines to the backend

Pretty major day in the world of the web, eh?
The PHP development team announced the release of version 5.3.0. This is a major milestone. Here’s what I’m most excited about:

Lambda Functions and Closures
ternary short cut “?:”
Optional garbage collection for cyclic references

I’m excited about support for namespaces, but not the particular syntactical implementation chosen.
Also, [...]

If you’re building a startup and your revenue is all ad based, it’s like eating dessert before eating the full meal. Yes, it might taste good at first, but sooner or later you’ll be on the toilet…and uncomfortable.
Over the past few weeks I’ve read a lot of articles like this one, which reiterate how [...]

In Part I, I detailed the formative phases of our web development careers.  A providential encounter with a magazine article, tons of free time, inherent curiosity, youthful ambition were the perfect storm that threw us into the world of programming.
At this time, Matt was admittedly more of a programmer than I was.  While our web [...]

I am not a nostalgic person.  You cannot change the past, and as much as the past has shaped your present, the fact is, you live in that same present, today.  It’s no use getting caught up in what you can’t change, or worrying about a future that may never come.  However, that being said, there [...]

Breaking Radio Silence

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It’s been a few weeks since our last post, but rest assured we are still committed to this blog. We started a project that’s not really top-secret, but we’re keeping it under wraps for now. In the meantime we have developed a pretty cool framework. I know the pure Rubyists out there [...]

  

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