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What Makes a Great Conference?

I’ve been asking around on email and on the social networks what makes a conference memorable, special, or amazing.  This topic has my special...

1 replies - 1021 views - 05/22/13 by Jurgen Appelo in Articles

DrupalCon 2013: Introducing Drupal Hooks and Views Metrics

This post comes from Belinda Runkle at the New Relic Blog. We <3 Drupal! DrupalCon has returned to Portland. And naturally we’re very...

0 replies - 399 views - 05/22/13 by Leigh Shevchik in Articles

11 Things to Remember About People in Middle Management Roles

It’s easy to be critical of managers.  A few things to remember. 0. Most people in management roles want to do a good job, but may not know what to do...

0 replies - 801 views - 05/21/13 by Esther Derby in Articles

Resize Image Class With PHP

A common feature that you will come across in websites is the ability to resize an image to fit an exact size so that it will be displayed correctly on your...

0 replies - 506 views - 05/21/13 by Paul Underwood in Articles

Git - Simple File Management

Files can be added, committed and removed from git repositories using one or more of the following commands: Adding a file named "testFile.xml" to the...

0 replies - 3567 views - 05/21/13 by Matt Vickery in Articles

The Stand Up Desk Rises to the Occasion

Like most Americans, I lead a largely sedentary lifestyle. I’ve never been particularly athletic. The closest I’ve ever been was 5 years of forced...

0 replies - 2073 views - 05/20/13 by Joel Cochran in Articles

It Takes About Two Months to Write a Technical Book

A lot of people will tell you writing a book is hard. I’m here to tell you it’s not. Solving the Hamiltonian path problem is hard, writing a book just...

0 replies - 1490 views - 05/19/13 by Swizec Teller in Articles

We're All Born to Blog

So you want to blog, huh? Where do you start? You start with buying a book. Not just any book, but “Born to Blog: Building Your Blog for Personal and...

0 replies - 1754 views - 05/19/13 by Rogier Noort in Articles

The Big List of 256 Programming Languages

Summer typically brings lots of vacation time for people. Instead of sitting around and being lazy, why not take the time to learn a new programming...

6 replies - 10539 views - 05/16/13 by Robert Diana in Articles

5 Things That Will Make Your Agile Development Project FAIL

Far too many Agile development projects fail. It is hard to even accurately measure the number of failures because so many software development projects end up...

0 replies - 5403 views - 05/14/13 by John Sonmez in Articles

Things Made Easy: One Click CMS Integration with Solr & Drupal

If you have a new web project or and existing Drupal site, the combination of Drupal and Apache Solr is both powerful and easy to set up thanks to the...

0 replies - 1230 views - 05/14/13 by Mitch Pronschinske in Articles

Functional Programming – How to Write Functional Code in PHP

Functional programming can be defined in simple terms as a programming paradigm that do not change the state of a program instead it uses pure functions. A...

0 replies - 481 views - 05/13/13 by Andrey Prikaznov in Articles

Getting Started WIth Laravel PHP

If you code for the web, you’ll most likely have seen all the fuss about the Laravel PHP framework. I’ve decided to take a look and see what all the fuss...

0 replies - 989 views - 05/12/13 by Andy Hawthorne in Articles

7 Steps for Writing Your First Test

Here are the slides from my Sela Developer Practices 2013 talk:   PS: If you were not one of the thousands in attendance, I’m doing it as a Typemock...

0 replies - 2974 views - 05/09/13 by Gil Zilberfeld in Articles

Git Going with Distributed Source Control

Introduction to Git from Øredev Conference on Vimeo. Many development shops have made the leap from RCS, Perforce, ClearCase, PVCS, CVS, BitKeeper or...

0 replies - 2643 views - 05/08/13 by Mitch Pronschinske in Articles