Staying sane is important. Keeping calm under pressure is always preferable to going totally ape, even if you feel the situation warrants it. Read the rest of this entry »
Remember this.
Languages, frameworks, design patterns, blogs, Photoshop, Fireworks, off-the-shelf products, roll-your-own solutions, operating systems, servers, desktop PCs, laptops, phones, shoes, socks, paradigms: they’re all just tools.
Craftsmen create. They use their tools and they get the job done.
The end result is the job. The tools are irrelevant to the craftsmen. Don’t debate others’ choices of tools - learn from them. That is the path of the artisan.
The more tools you have, the better. The more you use them all, the better.
Anything else is just spending your apprenticeship looking for the perfect hammer, then spending your career painting it.
If you read my last article, I’m guessing you had one of two reactions. Either “Oh my science, that’s me!”, or “What an arrogant twat!”.
My second guess is that if you called me arrogant, your development language of choice for your killer CMS was PHP.
I know. I feel your pain. I’ve been there. There is a better way. Read the rest of this entry »
It’s so easy to create a content managed website these days that it’s often equally easy to be paralysed by choice. This journal runs on WordPress, and uses a modified version of a theme by MidMo Web Design. It took all of 20 minutes from download to test-posting into this theme.
Picking the engine itself, though, has taken about 2 years, and was based on one thing: immediacy. Read the rest of this entry »