If You Don't Start You Won't Finish The honest truth of the matter is though, if I don’t start, it won’t get done – unlike the story about the Shoemaker and the Elves, they are not coming to clean my house each day! This of course is a very simple example, but I find this reminder useful even at work.

The article goes on to discuss some great techniques to help you get started - a nice reminder.

Developers are Authors This is truly a concept that has only dawned on me recently - in fact, probably within the past day or two. The ironic part about this, I’ve actually considered myself an author for the past 3 years, since the release of my first book. And most developers I meet or work with seem to have the same reaction when I tell them, “Oh you’re an author, that’s pretty cool.” When in fact – as the title states – all developers are authors, including you! Now let me tell you why. As I stated at the start of the article, this is really new information to me, but has had a really strong impact on the way I think. Firstly, I cannot take any credit for this statement as I read it in a book. If you follow me on Twitter, you will know that the name of the book is Clean Code by Robert C. Martin – the initiator of agile software development and extreme programming.

I love the comparison about the @author tag being always that as the creator versus its intent - the author.

Bad Developers Should NOT Use Frameworks The sad part about this article is that the people that actually need to read this won’t. Why; because they simply don’t care about what they do. It really is the honest truth. Nonetheless, I will courageously continue writing in hopes that the good developers will magically convey this message to the people who need to learn it!

This totally hits the nail right on the head!

Implementing the Repository Pattern with CakePHP I must admit, my recent articles are becoming a bit obsessed around the repository pattern. What can I say, I like it, it’s useful, and it’s not restrictive based on a language or a framework. I’ve long professed how I dislike convoluted controllers. CakePHP’s find method almost immediately causes this when used inside a controller. More importantly, the code inside the find method is extremely unreadable. This is almost more important than a large controller function!

I really like how this is implemented.