Archive for the ‘PHP’ Category

Mar

14

Please Outsource Your Programming

By ian

That’s right. Every single interactive agency should outsource programming. Here’s a quick process to follow:

First go to somebody who knows what they’re doing and make an insultingly low demand for pricing.
Leave meeting indignantly and call the expert a hack.
Have your website built by the lowest bidder in Romania or India.
Watch you project go way over […]

Jan

8

Switching hosts again.

By ian

This past summer, I switched over to a new hosting company, A2Hosting. They’ve been pretty good, but they definitely fall into the cheap hosting category. At least once a month my server goes down. This may sound really bad, but they’re always quick to respond and very nice. It’s alos kind of expected for the […]

Apr

19

Writing Good Code

By ian

Like many developers, I spend a lot of time working with unfamiliar code. Whether it’s code that was written by another developer or code I’ve written a long time ago, it requires me to read through to gain enough understanding to fix and/or extend it. Unfortunately. most of the code is just bad in many ways.
It […]