You Landed Your First Developer Role - Now What (Part Two)?
Landing the first role as a developer seems like the hardest thing to do. Then you realised it’s just the beginning. What do you do to become a professional developer?
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You Landed Your First Developer Role - Now What (Part One)?
Sometimes, landing the first role as a developer seems like the hardest thing to do. Then you realise it’s only just the beginning. But what do you do to become a professional developer?
Simplify Your PHP Deployment Needs with Deployer
Choice can be a good thing, but often too much choice is worse than too little. You risk becoming overwhelmed, confused, even paralyzed. Come learn about the simplest deployment tool for PHP.
Why Microframeworks Create Lean Applications
Recently I built a new application using SlimPHP, a PHP microframework, instead of a full-stack framework, such as Symfony or Zend Framework 2. In this post, I start discussing how taking this approach has lead to a leaner application design.
Why We Have To Restart the Mantra of High Performance Applications
There was a time when it was normal to expect that your application would be as highly performant as possible. But over the last decade or so, with the advent of cheap hardware, applications have become larger and more capable, yet demand ever more resources than they once did. Sure, they give us more, but at what cost? Today, filtered through the lens of one of the tougher programming concepts, regular expressions, I consider the partly lost art of efficient programming, the potential reasons for and against, as well as excuses people make for avoiding doing what they should.
How to Make Your Voice Sound Sexy with Audacity
Whether you’re creating a podcast or a screencast, how do you make your voice sound as professional as possible - without an expensive recording studio? Today I’ll show you how to do it using the free, open-source tool Audacity.
How To Prepare an Online Training Environment
Thinking of becoming a PluralSight Author? Considering creating online training videos and screencasts to share your experience with others? Make it easy on yourself by knowing how to setup a consistent environment.
PHP South Coast 2015
The inaugural PHP South Coast conference, in Portsmouth, was excellent - truly excellent. Here’s my review of the talks, the networking, the people, the games and everything in between.
How to Network, Even if You Are Self-Conscious
Networking is something we should all build more actively, whether professionally or personally. It’s rewarding on so many levels. But if you’re self-conscious, how do you start?
Building the Podcast Site with Slim PHP
Here we are in July 2015. How did the time pass so quickly? The excitement from the last few weeks is still with me, so you could say that I’m on a bit of a high of late. However, it’s not all been peaches and cream…