You are currently browsing the archives for the techfounder category.
Some casual surfing led me to this article from a couple of years ago, titled "How to recognize a good programmer". It was a nice read, but as many in the comments pointed out, the criteria the author set forth most likely describe himself and are not really useful as rules-of-thumb on how to recognize a good programmer.
It got me thinking though, on what are the attributes I consider useful in fellow programmers. So what makes a good programmer?
(more...)
Preface: This article was written mostly half a year ago, as I was wrapping up an intense period of freelancing and sub-contracting. It is less relevant for me now, as I'm now an equal partner in a small web firm and my freelancing days are beyond me - however, I thought it might be a good read.
Today I took and passed the Zend Framework certification exam. A possible project involving Zend might be materializing in the near future, and this was a requirement from one of my contractors (OpenIT). Being that they offered to sponsor the cost, I had no reason not take it.
As I found no concrete online information on the test (and the guide link from Zend doesn't work), I might as well elaborate a little for the benefit of future test takers reading this blog -
(more...)
I've been super-busy the last couple of months - I've came across a stupendous amount of work that I couldn't refuse in addition to the effort towards the release of my own startup, business platform Octabox. Things are finally calming down, and I'll be getting back to blogging, writing about plenty of things I've learned / implemented / experimented with the last two months.
I've signed up my blog's feed to feedburner yesterday, to give me better control of my subscriptions in case I ever need to make changes to the site and also to get some better statistical information 
.
If you subscribed to my blog's feed, I would appreciate it if you could resubscribe at my feedburner feed - http://feeds.feedburner.com/Techfounder. After you've subscribed you can unsubscribe from the old one. Sorry for the trouble and thank you for reading my blog! 
Subscribe to the feed
Follow me on Twitter