Category: Software Development

I.  Introduction The PHP PDO bothers me.  Oh, it’s great, as are prepared statements.  But it’s so… messy.  And not as object-oriented as I would like. Plus, some SQL syntax is just plain dumb.  (OK, it’s almost as old as FORTRAN, when we wrote our code on the cave walls in deer blood.  The dead … Continue reading “A Cleaner Approach to PHP, PDO, and SQL”

I. Introduction Agile & Beyond is an annual conference (at least 9 years running) about the application of ‘Agile’ principles to software development… and management thereof.  (And, yes, the implied reference to Buzz Lightyear’s “To Infinity, and Beyond” is not accidental.) I’ve attended a couple of these in the past, but this year I was a … Continue reading “Agile & Beyond 2019”