Laravel is not new to me, despite my resume possibly suggesting that. I wrote a CMS app using the Laravel Blade architecture back in 2016. At the time, I wasn’t […]
PHP Drops in TIOBE Index
When I learned that PHP significantly dropped in the TIOBE index back in April 2024, I was not surprised. Over the past year, having seen how the job market is […]
Backyard Garden Softscape
For those of us in the gardening community, there is a distinct difference between the “hardscape” and the “softscape”. The hardscape is all that big, heavy, “not alive” stuff: wood, […]
Mini Yii App Thoughts
Okay, I’ve played with a few frameworks now. CalPERS had its own custom PHP-based MVC framework. Then I played with Laravel and Ruby on Rails. But nothing prepared me for […]
Deploying my first Ruby on Rails App
OMG, I never would have thought that deploying a Ruby on Rails app would have been so incredibly difficult! Building the app and testing it on my laptop was very […]
Backyard Garden Hardscape
The handful of people who really know me, know that I have a few favorite hobbies… one of which is “gardening”. Yeah, I put that into quotes because for me, […]
Learning Python
I’ve self-taught myself a lot of programming languages over the years. Yes, I kind of struggled with MS-BASIC back when I was in high school. Truth is, there wasn’t any […]
My Introduction to Ruby on Rails
I went through a job change in September and October 2023. People would often tell me “You’ll easily get a new job”. They couldn’t be farther from the truth! Despite […]
First WordPress Page!
This is my first WordPress site. There have been a few interesting quirks that I’ve learned. Poking around the user interface has been relatively intuitive. But there were a few […]