Bitcoin is revolutionary. It may not happen immediately, but eventually you won't be able to ignore it. There will be a gravity to it, an incentive to be a part of it. Those who don’t use it will put themselves at a disadvantage... At some point, it actually takes more work to ignore the innovation.

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High-quality software is both valuable to the business now and easy to change later. While it’s simple to be dogmatic at either end of this spectrum, both goals are important to the business in the long run. Aiming for highly cohesive and loosely coupled code is key to finding the balance, but this concept can be tough to understand at first glance. So what does it actually mean?

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What the Ã�©Ð”ã° is going on!?

Finding Your Way Out of Charset Hell

Say goodbye to cargo cult solutions. Finally get a grasp on character set encoding, learn how it works for PHP apps and MySQL, and become confident in fixing encoding issues once and for all.

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If you want to make a difference in software, get better at modernizing legacy applications. The tech world is desperately in need of such skills, and it’s only gonna get more dire from here.

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Wow, my last post got way more attention than I expected! There was the expected amount of snark, to be sure, but there was also some genuine misunderstanding and confusion about a few things, so let's clear them up.

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Is Your Team Feeling Scattered and Unfocused?

Not everything needs attention right this minute

In the world of design and development, your team’s getting a lot thrown at it. It’s true if you’re running a software shop responsible for churning out a single product, and it’s especially problematic for digital agencies with multiple clients. But when everything’s an emergency, nothing is.

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