Eric Poe

I have, from time to time, joked that I stopped enjoying Shakespeare when asked to compare characters from disparate works and brocolli.

In 2023, GatsbyJS was purchased by Netlify.

I have been studying Hamlet for almost a month and have enjoyed the experience.

Damn.

Background I am a recovering English Lit major.

After a break of ...

When working with contributing to open-source software, one typically works from a forked repository of the original repository.

Yesterday, we started our second "hackathon" at work.

The time of Hacktoberfest is upon us!

I'm very excited.

As I build this site using gatsbyjs, I find myself learning new things every day.

On July 2nd of this year, I discovered an amazing git-stash option that lets me see the git-diff between what I currently have and what is in the stash: git…

A coworker sent me a screen-grab of a forum post where someone stated that they used an experimental Docker image that I had built to help them with their local…

I had been searching for a new static-site generator for some time.

From a KCPHPUG lightning talk being given on 06 Apr 2016.

From a KCPUG lightning talk given on 02 Mar 2016 PHP Updates Security and bugfix updates to PHP were released in February.

From a KCPUG lightning talk given on 03 Feb 2016 January was a relatively light month in PHP.

In my current job, I am starting the process to upgrade our PHP 5.4 application to a PHP 5.6 application (PHP 7 is not yet support by the majority of…

From a KCPUG lightning talk given on 06 Jan 2016 December was a busy month in PHP.

I have been a professional developer for over a year and a half now.

2015 was my year to really dive into PHP.

My 6th grader asked me this evening about the classic novel, Don Quixote.

The "switch" statement within various languages, contains a similar structure.

so much depends upon a fresh dough nut glazed with maple icing beside the black coffee. — Based on The Red Wheelbarrow by William Carlos Williams…

Introduction I have been thinking about numbers for most of my life.

I was studying the array_filter in PHP and was enjoying coming up with a test that could help me learn better array_filter magic.

The LCHF diet can be summarized as follows: "The fat you eat flows through; the fat you make sticks to you."

On Wednesday, I took an extended lunch break in order to take the Zend PHP Certification test at a local Pearson VUE Testing Center.

Today is the unofficial Star-Wars-fan holiday known as the Revenge of the Fifth.

I attended Lone Star PHP last year with much hope and even more trepidation as to my abilities to hold my own with other members of the PHP community.

The first day of Lone Star 2015 was devoted to training.

Heredoc Heredoc will define a string of text in a what-you-see-is-what-you-mean type of format.

In PHP, we have two ways of formatting an echo statement: we can choose to use single-quotes or double-quotes.

I have moved my site from one domain to another.

Kata Kata are a series of movements which, when repeated, migrate mindful action into muscle memory.

I was recently talking with a non-programmer friend of mine about teaching our kids how to code.

We hired a new guy at work.

I recently had the opportunity to take my love of programming from being a hobby to being a career.

I was fortunate to receive a scholarship to attend the 2014 Lone Star PHP Conference in Addison, TX (Dallas metro area) over the April last weekend in April.

For years, I have prided myself on knowing how to set up a LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP/Perl/Python) server in linux OSes based on Debian, RedHat, and SuSE.

Last week, I gave a short demo of the Atom.io text editor to the Kansas City PHP User Group.

After studying Dart for a month, I wondered which problems Dart was attempting to resolve.

I am currently feeling a bit of push and pull between at least two different decisions.

This evening, I attended the Dart Flight School at the Google Fiber Space in Kansas City.

Background I was recently tasked with programming a connecty-bit between a Google Drive Form and our instance of SolarWinds Web Help Desk.

On page 7 of Learning Python (4th ed), Mark Lutz briefly discusses the speed differences between Python and compiled languages like C++.