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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 verbiage and stateless APIs.

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

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

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

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

• I hate globals.

• 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 disappointed 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 dependencies anywhere in a project.

• I tend to like shorter rather than longer words.