You’ve heard the saying “unable to see the forest for the trees”? So many projects suffer needless delays on many levels because there is so much work to do, that time can’t be spent up front to reduce the overall effort.
Here’s a small, but specific example I encountered recently, and how I made things better. [...]
Performance problems can be hard to deduce, and the root cause is often not very obvious. On a recent project, I ran in to a serious performance problem rendering part of a DOM tree. Those things that were suggested as the probable causes, turned out not to be. The root cause turned out to be [...]
For a while now, I’ve been thinking about building a blog system of my own. I did build a very basic blog engine in PHP once before, way back in 2002. It worked quite well, but I never seemed to be able to commit the time to make it complete, which brings us full circle [...]