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> Most mature languages have a logging system which allows the internal logging of a library or module to be silenced, redirected or almost any other action. I think there is a lot…

Log (and presumably) deal with errors if you _can deal with them_ close to where they occur. Otherwise just let them throw and/or propagate them up. An application should have some…

Same for me. Kids are 1.5 and 4. I used to do so much just hacking around, and now it's non-existent. As far as bedtime/sleep stuff: I pretty much just wind down after the kids go …

Seconded, this is a great book. I think all non-managers should read it as well as it will give you some clarity on what you should expect from your manager and what their day-to-d…

I tend to write test cases that re-produce bugs first, then fix the bug. Other than that, I don't stick too hard to test driven development. I did for a while, but you start to get…

Though it may have started as a, "parasite upon reddit," imgur does stand pretty well on its own now. Try out their mobile app and you'll see a pretty active community.

That's advertisers themselves doing a bad job of retargeting. First-party data is probably not going to change that. In fact, it may mean you'll just get those ads across all your …

Advertising. Definitely first party data for targeting. An advertiser takes some data from its CRM, sends it to the big social sites and google, and then uses the list to target th…

PMG | Senior Backend or Frontend Engineers | Fort Worth, TX | https://www.pmg.com/ Onsite or Remote, Full-Time PMG is looking for some senior-level engineers to help us build in ho…

This is how I came to work remotely. When my wife and I had to move for her job, I had built quite a bit of the software my company relied on. Had leverage to go remote and the tru…

I suspect it's because WhatsApp's backend can be turned into a platform that will run WhatsApp itself as well as Facebook Messenger. There's a lot more opportunity to do messaging …

If your objects require dependencies to do their jobs, it should be impossible to create objects without those dependencies. The objects' constructors should require them. Having s…

That's more along the lines of what a lot of TDD literature says. Write adapters or facades that wrap external libraries, use those in your own code's unit tests. This makes you le…

http://morepypy.blogspot.com/2012/07/hello-everyone.html > I'm proud to release the result of a Facebook-sponsored study on the feasibility of using the RPython toolchain to produc…

https://github.com/gollum/gollum Named after the software that powers the wiki.

I have a Bachelors and Masters in Music Performance (classical guitar). Did one year of a doctoral program too before I figured out I liked building things more.

It's easy to turn off: remove_action('init', 'wp_cron'); Then just set up your own real cron job to run the `wp-cron.php` script however often you'd like. > If your site gets a lar…

> Most of the CMS's that claim to use PHPass actually use the "portable" option This is true for WordPress, which uses PHPass. You have to replace `wp_hash_password` to get WP to u…

There's also a library for PHP >= 5.3.7 that provides the same API if PHP 5.5 isn't an option yet. https://github.com/ircmaxell/password_compat Written by Anthony Ferrara, the same…

> So it's like PHP where I need to pass in `function modify(&$foo) {` to modify a variable passed by reference. If you're thinking in terms of PHP's primitive types, then yes: that…

I would recommend Doctrine DBAL[0] over Meekro. 0. http://www.doctrine-project.org/projects/dbal.html

The settings API [0] is really bad. That said, you can still use parts of it without the `add_settings_field` and `add_settings_section` bits. Or you can build reasonably powerful …

The theme replaced jQuery bundled with WordPress with some external version (eg. Google hosted or otherwise) and did it so on both the admin and front end. That's usually the cause…