Jack of all trades; Master of one.
Topics about programming which include Visual Basic, VBScript, C#, ASP, PowerShell, Python, PHP, Clipper, Javascript, SQL, or really any other related language/concept.
Prologue Almost 4 years ago I wrote a controversial post entitled “17 Reasons WordPress is a Better CMS than Drupal” that caused me to be persona non grata among some of my prior Drupal friends. But while some of the issues I mentioned have been addressed by the Drupal community most of the issues remain …
Continue reading “The Decline of Drupal / How to Fix Drupal 8”
It occurred to me recently that while intuitively obvious to many the concept of “Software Quality” is probably something never actually studied by the average developer who doesn’t have a formal computer science education. Yet understanding software quality beyond intuition has been extremely helpful to me over the years as a programmer and software architect. …
As an active JetBrains’ PhpStorm user one of my feature requests was for First Class WYSIWYG Markdown/Markdown Extra Support. Unfortunately they told me (and others) to use a 3rd party plugin which given it’s lack of quality and features turned out to be a non-starter for me. So I continue to use Markdown Pro which …
Continue reading “What the World Needs is a Markdown IDE for Programmer Documentation”
This blog post has been simmering inside me for while. Some might think it as link bait but frankly I don’t blog often because I don’t have the time to manage lots of comments. So the thought of posting something that will likely be controversial has me going against my better judgment (but it won’t be …
Continue reading “17 Reasons WordPress is a Better CMS than Drupal”
UPDATE (2011-04-15): Since I wrote this post I’ve learned a tremendous amount about WordPress plugin development; so much so that I can’t overstate how much more I know today than when I wrote this post years ago. So, while the following post might be a novelty to read, I highly recommend that you don’t use …
Continue reading “RESTful Web Services in a WordPress Plugin?”
Back in July of 2006 someone asked on the forum for ASPnix, the web host that specializes in CommunityServer, to add ISAPI Rewrite to their servers so that customers can clean up their URLs. Seven people including myself chimed in asked for it. Over the past eight months, little was said by ASPnix except by …
When it comes to programming on the modern-day GUI (post-DOS) platform, the vast majority of my coding has been, in order of experience, using T-SQL, VBScript in ASP, and about equal parts classic VB (v3.0 to v6.0) and VB.NET. As you can see from my order of experience, I’m really a database guy, and since the …
Continue reading “On the Hunt for a New Programming Language”
I needed to get a small content website up and running for a project a friend of mine and I are working on, and we started discussing what to use; i.e. raw HTML, a web framework, a CMS, or something else. I have experience on ASP, IIS, and Windows Server using my own mini ASP-based …
Contents I Ranted and Eric Rebutted While I Respect the People at Microsoft… …They Become Detached Eric Unconsciously Supports my Thesis! Dismissing the Proposal, Not Solving the Problem Not More Power; Transitionality! Today’s Potential Didn’t Address Yesterday’s Deficiency Nor Does an Orphan Address Yesterday’s Deficiency And a Potential isn’t a Solution Yes, there’s Powershell, but… …
Continue reading “Clarifying my Microsoft Developer Division Rant”
I just noticed a Google ad out of the corner of my eye for Blog Submitter Pro (URL is http://www.marketersos.com/ but I will give them no Page Rank!) I googled it and found this review of Blog Submitter Pro by Vincent Rich! I was floored. Someone actually sells a product that is causing us bloggers …