First Post O’clock!
As this blog is something of a stream of consciousness I thought it might be useful to lay out the themes that I’ll be touching on over the next few posts.
First and foremost, I’m a working developer producing PHP sites for S-cool and that is how I earn my living. I’m not: claiming to be a “rock star” programmer, aiming to blow my own trumpet or otherwise puff up my own ego. The more modest intention is to document the problems and solutions that I find interesting/exciting and hopefully engage in, and contribute to, the various developer communities a little more.
Core areas of interest are:
- writing efficient, beautiful, scalable code
- comparing/discussing the various languages, frameworks, tools and ideologies
- learning new skills
The language I’ve most recently adopted is Erlang and I expect the majority of my first posts will cover my progress learning how to use it and evaluating why functional programming is so hot right now. If you are interested in joining in, learning along or setting me straight when I misunderstand: my current guides are The Getting Started With Erlang and Programming Erlang: Software for a Concurrent World.
