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As you may, or may not, know, I briefly stopped freelancing a few months ago, when I took up a full-time software development contract. I felt that I wasn’t doing as well at freelancing as I should, and that something needed to change.

If you’re considering being a technical writer, there are three essential skills which you need to have. That is if you want to write authentically. Today, I’m going to go over each of them, showing why they’re essential, as well as providing tips and suggestions on how you can improve if you’re light on in any one of them.

If you’re a writer or, actually, any professional, you’ll have had doubts about your abilities, about your level of knowledge, about your level of expertise — perhaps on a regular basis. It needn’t be this way.

In a recent application I found that I was too bound to a database as the application’s data source and wanted to decouple from it as much as possible, whilst using the least amount of effort. During research into the required changes, I came across an excellent pattern which gives a lot of flexibility, yet which doesn’t require a lot of code - it’s called the repository pattern.

If you’re having trouble writing well perhaps, it’s not your inability to express yourself, or your command of English that’s the problem. Perhaps it’s your approach to writing that’s at fault.

When working with other developers on a project, editor and IDE differences, whilst not fatal, can be annoying, and even violate group coding standards. Put an end to that by using EditorConfig.

I don’t remember where I first heard these words, but they’ve been ringing in my ears for the last few weeks — the last few months even. They’re words which I’ve been pondering the significance of to my life, to the work I do on a daily basis.

Recently, I started a month trial of Grammarly, as I wanted to improve, significantly, my level of English proficiency, as well as the clarity of my writing. Here’s why Grammarly is a writer’s best friend.

PHP 7 presents enormous benefits over all previous versions. But is your code ready? In this tutorial, find out what needs to be done using the Phan static code analyser.

This week’s been an exciting one on the podcast, with two new episodes covering interoperability and how to configure Zend Expressive applications. Here’s a recap.