December 8, 2025

Motivational Quote Monday 2025-12-08

Design is choosing how you will fail. Ron Fein

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December 4, 2025

Every Day in 2026 in Y-m-d Format

AI coding assistants are powerful tools, but without proper guardrails, they can lead to costly mistakes

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December 1, 2025

Motivational Quote Monday 2025-12-01

Programs, like people, get old. We can't prevent aging, but we can understand its causes, take steps to limit its effects, temporarily reverse some of the damage it has caused, and prepare for the...

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November 24, 2025

Motivational Quote Monday 2025-11-24

Voluminous documentation is part of the problem, not part of the solution. Tom DeMarco

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November 10, 2025

Motivational Quote Monday 2025-11-10

Science is what we understand well enough to explain to a computer; art is everything else. Donald Knuth

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November 10, 2025

Motivational Quote Monday 2025-11-10

You cannot teach beginners top-down programming, because they don't know which end is up. Tony Hoare

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October 28, 2025

Longhorn PHP 2025 Day 3

values of tests = cost of bugs found by tests - cost of test suite Coupling: the amount of knowledge A knows about B A (application code) has thin later to connect to B (send emails) Test Doubles...

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October 28, 2025

Longhorn PHP 2025 Day 2

10 Software Laws We're here at the conference and not at home. Our career gets better but family life worse. "If something is hard, do it more often" Shipley's Six Dimensions 1. Brevity of...

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October 24, 2025

Taming Time in PHP Best Practices and Gotchas - Longhorn PHP 2025

I presented my talk on Time in PHP at Longhorn PHP 2025 Links: Join.d Slides: Follow Scott: Mastodon: @scottkeckwarren@phpc.social X/Twitter: @scottkeckwarren (write only)...

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October 24, 2025

SQL Database Design For Developers - Longhorn PHP 2025

My slides and links from my SQL Database Design For Developers talk at Longhorn PHP 2025

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