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Doug Bird edited this page Aug 21, 2015 · 14 revisions

The following rants and aphorisms explain my mindset when developing flat. A few may be mutually exclusive, some make little sense or may be disturbing.

  • I really like 4 letter words.

  • I really like RESTful verbage and stateless APIs.

  • I like having clear separation between business logic and application logic.

  • I like expressing and relying on maps of relationships and heirarchies.

  • I am disapointed when designers are frequently confused about "where things go" in a project.

  • I am very disapointed in myself when designers have to frequently as me "where things go" in a project I developed.

  • I am very disapointed in myself when a sysadmin cannot easily determine how to deploy a project I developed.

  • I hate globals.

  • I think psr naming standards are reasonable.

  • I like using the latest stable release of PHP

  • I dislike using different terminology between two things if they accomplish the same thing.

  • I think CodeIgniter and Symfony are nice frameworks.

  • I do not mind being practical and pragmatic when there are time pressures to accomplish tasks.

  • I like Memcache, MongoDB, and MariaDB

  • I am disapointed in myself when any of my choices make it difficult to achieve scalability or availability goals.

  • I am annoyed when I repeat myself.

  • I hate having to work really hard to manage, maintain, and determine dependancies anywhere in a project.

  • I tend to like shorter rather than longer words.

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