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Here, you'll find articles and tutorials to help you and your team grow your software testing, deployment, and documentation skills, posted on a regular basis.

Tue, Jul 5, 2016

What I Learned Building a Zend Expressive Application

Zend Expressive is an excellent framework for building modern applications; whether micro or enterprise-sized applications. But that doesn’t mean that it’s the easiest to get up to speed with. Today I’m going to share with you what I’ve learned, building applications using it.

Thu, May 26, 2016

A Project Retrospective

After four and a half months on a project, it’s time to look back and reflect on what went well, what didn’t, and what could have gone better.

Thu, May 26, 2016

How Did You Choose Your Career Path?

Have you ever stopped to consider why you chose your career path? Was it out of fear? Was it chosen for you? Was it the safe choice? Was it because you always wanted to?

Thu, May 26, 2016

How To Be An Authentic Writer

If you’ve ever looked at a lot of modern writing, especially in either business or politics, you’ll know that it’s often anything but authentic.

The 3 Key Skills You Need to Be a Technical Writer
Tue, May 24, 2016

The 3 Key Skills You Need to Be a Technical Writer

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.

3 Tips to be Expert Enough
Mon, May 23, 2016

3 Tips to be Expert Enough

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.

Mon, May 23, 2016

How to Simplify Development with the Repository Pattern

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.


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