A tale of creativity, passion, and good wine

Christopher Pitt asked a simple question: Can a developer be called a creative?

I am talking about whether systems architects or PHP developers (like me!) can be called…

On Coming Full Circle

The first year:

The second year:

How to Escape a Horror Movie Monster

I grew up being a big fan of horror movies. I enjoyed them all; from big blockbuster movies, to unheard of indie flicks, and there’s one type of scene all horror movies have in common: The…

The Forgotten Debugging Tool

Assertions. You've probably heard of them, but have you ever used them? Not the ones you find in unit testing frameworks like PHPUnit. I mean, have you ever used the PHP assert() function?