Browsing the blog archives for August, 2008

5 things that suck about weak typing

We all love our scripting languages with its simplicity, elegant and beautiful syntax, and the ability to quickly hack together a solution. One of the common features of most scripting languages is being weakly typed. Meaning that we don’t have to declare the variable’s data type before we use it; to some developers this is [...]

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Oh no its PHP!!!

A few months ago I was doing some job hunting and i’ve come across some interesting job interviews in the process. Now I have a good mixture of full-time work and freelance work, and most of my freelance work consists of enterprise PHP web applications; while my full-time work primarily consists of J2EE and Oracle.
During [...]

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Injecting technology to conservative management

During the course of my freelance work, i’ve encountered my fair share of conservative management. The fear, sometimes warranted, of migrating processes to use technology is staggering to the point of being absurd and sometimes humorous. Granted most of this businesses have experience using some form of technology, and they have been burned numerous times [...]

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New home!

Hi! Welcome to my new home, a place to share technology related ideas and random rants. Also a place to post new development updates for a still to be announced venture.

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