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World Domination through WordPress Security

July 31, 2017 by Eric

I’m tired of lamenting the state of WordPress security and doing nothing to address it. I’m building solutions to turn the conversation around.

Filed Under: Technology Tagged With: PHP, security, WordPress

Managing Gearman Securely

July 17, 2017 by Eric

The impact of an improperly-secured Gearman server grows with the importance of the application using it.

Filed Under: Technology Tagged With: Gearman, PHP, security

Introducing Sessionz

November 27, 2016 by Eric

Introducing a new, middleware-inspired session handler for PHP projects (not just WordPress) called Sessionz. It’s open source; take a look!

Filed Under: Technology Tagged With: PHP, Sessionz

Deprecate Magic Constructors in PHP

April 1, 2016 by Eric

Along the lines of the argument to make code easier to understand for quick readers, I want to propose something a little less radical and just as useful for devs: Deprecate the magic `__construct()` function.

Filed Under: Technology Tagged With: PHP

Clean up your clutter

September 25, 2014 by Eric

Global variables are bad, clutter your code, and can be a major stumbling project in terms of project maintainability. Don’t use them.

Filed Under: Technology Tagged With: globals, namespacing, PHP

Scripting vs Programming: PHP and OOP

September 2, 2014 by Eric

OOP doesn’t make much sense when we’re talking about a scripting language.

Filed Under: Technology Tagged With: Object-oriented Programming, PHP, scripting language

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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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