by Joe | Jan 16, 2018 | Day Job, PHP, Today I Learned
A common problem I run into with older applications are dependencies that have been added and loaded from the application’s repository. You would often see a “libraries” folder with a “className.php” type file. If you’re lucky...
by Joe | Aug 28, 2017 | Community, Day Job, Projects
Nearly all the programmers I know count programming among their hobbies. I always have; I was a hobbyist programmer long before I was a professional programmer. The cautionary tale is about burnout. When you spend all day at your day job doing one thing and then going...
by Joe | Jun 14, 2017 | Day Job
I can help your team solve interesting and complicated problems. I have been a PHP engineer for over a decade and spent the last few years working with large-scale custom content management systems and APIs in enterprise environments. I’m also experienced in server...
by Joe | May 25, 2017 | Day Job, PHP, Today I Learned
“Why does Guzzle put an underscore in my url!?” This was an issue I agonized over for more time than I’m willing to admit. I was parsing URLs out of an Apache access log to gather real world usage to run against my test server for the day job. I was...
by Joe | Jun 8, 2016 | Day Job
I don’t talk about my day job here or on social media very often. I’m proud of who I work for and the work that I’m doing I just seem to not talk about that stuff on social media. If you follow me on social media you can probably guess that I work...