Category: Development
I am a huge fan of open source development. From the developer side of things, it means there are limitless tools at my disposal for creating the next knock-your-socks off application. I can build just about anything with insanely powerful libraries of code that the big guys like Microsoft can’t touch. It’s an amazing power, and one that’s attracted more than a few good developers.
A few weeks ago, I published a tutorial regarding using the Google Reader API in PHP projects. Since that time, Google has changed the authentication portion of their API somewhat, so I need to revise my instructions just a bit. And some day in the future, I’ll even post a tutorial on how to use oAuth with the Google API as well.
I was taught some time ago to always focus on decoupling my code. Your server and the client (browser) should not need to know anything about the structure of one another. They can pass information back and forth, but that should be the full extent of their integration. There are several reasons for this, but the most important of which is modularity – you can drop features or entire sections of code from one without damaging the other.
The other day I came to an interesting revelation about the way we see the world. Actually, it’s more a theory on development based on the way I think we see the world. All the same, it has some great applications on both software development and marketing strategy. Today, though, I’ll focus more on the background and how it applies to computer theory.
Just a quick note to let everyone know about the new release of WordPress 3.0. This represents the culmination of several months of development by over 200 developers. And, finally, one of my contributions made the cut and was contributed to core! I’ve been building on WordPress for 3 years now, but up ’til now all of my contributions have been obscure enough to be relegated to the world of plug-ins rather than core code. No longer. Now it’s official. Just take a look at my name amongst the 218 core developers on the WP announcement page!
It is a good day 