First article down!

So I recently finished my first article for php|architect magazine. I really don’t think I would have gotten through it without rockstar engery drinks. I wonder if they’ve ever thought about sponsoring a programmer… haha. Energy drinks are to programmers as gatorade is to professional athletes. I guess programmers aren’t as high profile. We’ll see what the future holds!

My article is on encapsulating CRUD processes for reusability and portability. I’m pretty happy with how it came it. I finished it off at about 3800 words, but we’ll so what the editing process does to it. Overall it was a good experience. I’d really like to continue writing programming articles. I hope that the article goes over well. I’ll post a link to it once it’s published.

In the last little while I’ve been working a lot with Facebook’s API for PHP. I really don’t like the PHP API client that they offer. It doesn’t give very helpful error messages, which lead me to tons of frustration. It also just seems like an OO wrapper written by someone who was trained in procedural programming. It just doesn’t sit right with me. I might just have to try my hand at my own PHP client for the Facebook API.

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