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The Digital Wild West - Part Two
Regulation?The problem has been framed in part one, the programming industry, including PHP,  mostly operates in an unregulated environment, resulting in unpredictable skill levels, lack of oversight, and potential for severe consequences. This en...
1 week ago
The Digital Wild West - Part one
1. Unpredictable IndustryHave you ever wondered why the industry of PHP is so unpredictable when it comes to the knowledge base of a programmer? This has been tickling my gray cells, few of which I have, for years. Additionally, this is also true...
2 weeks ago
I am an amateur
After the publication of my last blog post, there was quite a hoohah from within the PHP community. I think that some mistakes and issues need to be addressed. I got into programming because of the awesome power available at your fingertips, to me...
1 month ago
My Journey of Relearning Laravel (edited)
Currently, I’m in the process of switching back to Laravel after spending many years becoming a specialist and writing a book about Symfony. In the past year or so I have noticed the gap between Symfony and Laravel grow wider, companies choosing L...
1 month ago
The Emperor’s New Clothes
Lately, for some reason, I've been increasingly noticing the disconnect between a company’s rhetoric and reality. Perhaps, over the course of 9 years in the IT industry, I’ve become more attuned to filtering out the hype and bullshit. Many compani...
1 month ago
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I have a foreboding of an America in my children's or grandchildren's time -- when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what's true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness... The dumbing down of American is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media, the 30 second sound bites (now down to 10 seconds or less), lowest common denominator programming, credulous presentations on pseudoscience and superstition, but especially a kind of celebration of ignorance