When I wrote about defending the code, I described how we don’t want to meet a date at the expense of our ability to meet future dates.  This applies to future projects as well.  If we meet the production date for the first project my producing a shaky pile of code, what is going to [...]

As I read “Clean Code” by Robert C Martin, I was particular drawn to the passage about why unrealistic commitments should not be an excuse for writing bad code.  He points out that while it is a manager’s job to “defend the schedule and requirements”, it is a developer’s “job to defend the code with [...]

When you run a website within a hosted web environment, you often do not have the luxury of direct or intranet access to your database anymore. With remoting tools such as phpMyAdmin becoming increasingly popular among web hosting providers, remote connections over the internet may be the only access a user has to their database. [...]