• Pessoal/Off-topic

    Book Review: The Art of Readable Code

    by  • February 27, 2012 • Books, Pessoal/Off-topic, PHP, Reviews • 0 Comments

    Lately I have been very involved with code quality, not just in terms of testing and actually working, but also on a deeper level, readability and plain good architecture. At my previous employer we had been working for a good while already applying rules from “Object Calisthenics” a concept by Jeff Bay, a simple...

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    Back to the Old Continent

    by  • November 8, 2011 • Career, Pessoal/Off-topic • 5 Comments

    “Your life begins where your comfort zone ends” (@elizabethN’s mother) My time at SWATends just shy of four years, and I can truly say it has been the biggest, most wonderful and most amazing professional experience of my life. I joined swat as a small user group manager and I am leaving as an...

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    Using the Facebook PHP-SDK to run FQL

    by  • January 12, 2011 • Development, Pessoal/Off-topic, PHP, Tips and Tricks • 4 Comments

    As of Facebook’s migration to the new Graph API and its OAuth 2.0 protocols, I can say that their Developer documentation has become a confusing, misleading and generally unstrung pile of semi-deprecated articles, and I’m being optimistic in doing so. Problem is lots of old articles are still in there pointing to old practices...

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    Changes on their way

    by  • November 22, 2010 • Pessoal/Off-topic • 0 Comments

    So over the next few weeks this space right here is going to be seeing lots of changes. This is just a warning that any broken links should be ignored over these weeks and will be promptly migrated to the new structure, but changes might take some time to go around. So keep an eye on...

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