Software Development

• Don't be precious about code
  
  If there is one good lesson from writing code in a team, it is that it is best not be too precious. [ Read more... ]
• Antifragility & Applications
  
  There is an approach I’m taking from programming to my use of my choice of operating systems and applications I use. [ Read more... ]
• My Developer Essentials
  
  In this entry I’m just going to mention the applications that I use in my working day. [ Read more... ]
• NetBeans on Ubuntu
  
  I’ve been using NetBeans 6.9.1 which was the latest PHP version that I’d found, but also found that it wasn’t automatically updating. [ Read more... ]
• My LAMP Server using VirtualBox
  
  I’m working on a VirtualBox image for a LAMP server. There are a few good reasons to use a virtualised LAMP server: [ Read more... ]
• Is Japanese difficult to learn? A programmer's perspective
  
  When I mention that I’m learning Japanese, many people ask something along the lines of “isn’t it a difficult language to learn? [ Read more... ]
• Sample class to escape a MySQL input value
  
  There was quite a simple but effective snippet I came across recently that highlights how PHP getters (magic methods) can be useful. [ Read more... ]