Hello dear readers. I just thought i’d give you a life update, since it’s been nearly a year since my last post. In no particular order, some things that have happened since then: I’ve been dating a lovely young woman for the last eight or so months who actually gives me a reason to go [...]
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Link: PHP sucks
One of my co-workers wrote up this gem on why PHP sucks. I don’t agree with his points (having a “development server” isn’t an important or even particularly useful feature of a framework, much less a language; prepared statements aren’t the pinnacle of SQL), but he does do a good job of showing off some [...]
Github
Brief post. I decided to actually use Github once in a while now (not in the least because I use it for open-source stuff at work). My page is up at github.com/Roguelazer, and the work account which I’m a contributor on is at github.com/Yelp. So, uh, feel free to comment on or improve any code [...]
Job Search: Complete
This post is a follow-up to Real Life Update Well, it was brief but exhausting. My job search has now come to a close. I interviewed at a large number of companies, got offers from a smaller number, and accepted an offer from Yelp. I’ll be starting in June on the Infrastructure team, doing something [...]
Real Life Update
I’m about to finish my second-to-last semester of college. That in and of itself is perhaps a somewhat stunning thing to think about. Equally important, of course, is the question of what I’ll do once I leave. I’ve been interviewing with a half-dozen companies, and just got back the other day from a trip up [...]
