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New Again! This site is a place to show off some of my current projects and thoughts about making software. More coming soon.

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Five Button Guys

November 28th, 2011 @ 6:15 AM Blog Tagged with People

During the past year I’ve come to a conclusion about many IT professionals that make up their departments. I’ve begun calling this archetype: five button guys.

Questions for Startups

November 14th, 2011 @ 4:42 AM Blog Tagged with People

A few weeks ago I was posed with a new question.

Q: What would you ask a new start-up or set of people thinking about a starting one.

Coding Standard

November 4th, 2011 @ 3:56 AM Blog Tagged with Process, Programming - General

A coding standard is an important part of programming. It lays the ground rules for how software is constructed and formatted . This standard has the following goals.

Reduce the “holy shit” factor when faced with a lot of new code.
Encourage a style of making software that is more maintainable and less likely to contain errors
Make collaboration easier

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Tech

LAMP - I choose to work with LAMP technologies because they provide flexibility for growth, have a better community of developers, and contain less 'Magic' than their proprietary counterparts.

Wordpress - I use Wordpress for websites because of the simple admin interfaces. Wordpress results in content management that is easier than true CMS solutions for end users.

Languages and Frameworks - PHP and Perl are the main languages I use for web applications. My MVCs of choice are Catalyst for Perl and CakePHP for PHP. The choices of languages and frameworks are somewhat arbitrary and mostly has to do with who I'm working with.

Desktop - I use Java for desktop applications. I choose Java for its cross-platform properties and strong Object Oriented elements.

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