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Third Party Dependencies

August 2, 2014 by Eric

Facebook went down yesterday. The outage demonstrated just how dependent on the service we’ve become.

Filed Under: Technology Tagged With: Dependency, facebook

Can I Count on You?

January 12, 2014 by Eric

Anyone who knows me can tell you that trust is a big deal for me.

I have left jobs because of a lack of trust. I’ve quit organizations because of a lack of trust. I’ve killed friendships because of a lack of trust. If I can trust you – really trust you – then things are great. If I can’t trust you …

Filed Under: Journal Tagged With: Dependency, employer, faith, job, trust, venturing

The Case for Singletons in WordPress

December 28, 2012 by Eric

Please also review my follow-up post, Making Singletons Safe in PHP. There has been a lot of discussion this week regarding the Singleton pattern and whether or not it has a place in modern software development.  Mike Schinkel wrote a tutorial about a Singleton factory.  I wrote one about using Singletons as a WordPress plugin […]

Filed Under: Technology Tagged With: Computer Programming, Dependency, Dependency Injection, design pattern, Developer, Object, singleton, Singleton Pattern, software, WordPress, You're

About Me

Eric is a storyteller, web developer, and outdoorsman living in the Pacific Northwest. If he's not working with new tech in web development, you can probably find him out running, climbing, or hiking in the woods.

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