29th April 2018 7:59 pm

Recently I've had the occasion to add a series of console commands to a legacy application. This can be made straightforward by using the…

22nd April 2018 10:50 pm

This was a bit of a weird post to write. It started out explaining how I resolved an issue years ago on a CodeIgniter site, but amended to…

12th April 2018 10:57 pm

I'm not going to sugarcoat it. As a developer, I think Wordpress is shit, and I'm not alone in that opinion. Its code base dates from a time…

10th March 2018 3:10 pm

In the last few days I've done something I've never done before, namely written a stored procedure for a web app. Like most web developers…

25th February 2018 5:22 pm

I've recently started a new job and as part of that I'm working on a rather substantial legacy code base. In fact, it was so legacy that it…