Recently, I read an interview with Tim O'Reilly, founder and CEO of O'Reilly Media, Inc., the company that puts out the ubiquitous tech books with the animals on the front (and, oddly enough, a great cookbook). O'Reilly facilitated the open-source movement, as well as the "maker" movement, through publishing technical manuals, and through hosting conferences and summits. In short, he gave us a way to talk about community engineering, programming, and creating in general. A banner under which "makers" can unite.
I consider myself a maker. I enjoy problem solving, especially in concrete ways. When I come up with a website, a service, or even just some snippet of code that people can use (even if they don't), it's a rush. I've written about this "superhero" feeling before.
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Friday, February 1, 2013
Wednesday, January 9, 2013
I Was Wrong
I mean, I was right… the first time.
When I first started working on SlickText, I converted the code that the CEO/Designer had written such that it would use Smarty templates. It was the right way to do things. However, he pushed back, saying it was “too complex”, and I caved and reverted back to the PHP/HTML files and output buffering that he was using previously.
When I first started working on SlickText, I converted the code that the CEO/Designer had written such that it would use Smarty templates. It was the right way to do things. However, he pushed back, saying it was “too complex”, and I caved and reverted back to the PHP/HTML files and output buffering that he was using previously.