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I am a Full Stack Web Developer and Senior Engineering Manager writing about SaaS, Ruby, PHP, JavaScript and other developery things.

  1. Begin; Return; Shenanigans

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    When using Ruby's begin block to memoize the result of an operation beware mixing it with return statements. Here's why.

  2. Getting Started With Code Reviews

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    As a junior developer, starting out with code reviews can be intimidating — here are a few ideas that I hope can get you started.

  3. From WordPress to Rails

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    Why I rebuilt my blog, moving from WordPress to Rails and going to a static website, rather than one driven by a database.

  4. New Job, New Programming Language

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    I’ve used PHP as my language of choice for ten years but in July I started a job using Ruby. Here I share some tips on how to get the most out of a language change.

  5. Webpack and WordPress 💙

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    How I use Webpack in my WordPress projects, complete with a boilerplate theme to get you up and running.