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Content management systems have become extremely popular over the past few years. In the PHP universe two of the most popular solutions are WordPress and Drupal. But one doesn't necessarily have to choose a popular one, right?

My job description has changed: I am going to need to learn the basics of C/C++. As part of the requirements for a specific ticket I needed to retrieve data from Memcache. I just can't believe how difficult it is to achieve this task compared to PHP!

Most companies which rely exclusively on Internet-based services are driven by the same principle: to make money with as little investment as possible. Nothing wrong with that, only that the amount of pressure is at times unbearable for me. Most of all, I believe it's unjustified.

This month (June 2010) I need to submit 3 assignments (software engineering, mathematics) and take one exam (Java). Having a full time job this is proving very difficult.

So you want to become a game developer. Now, isn't that cool? Yeah? Are you sure? Do you really know what it takes?

If you think that writing great software means writing tests, setting up continuous integration, following coding standards as well best practices then please read on.

Being technical lead isn't as rewarding as I thought it would be. I hate chasing developers when it comes to keeping track on who's working on what. You may argue that this is exactly why they invented bug tracking systems. Well, someone needs to write cases first, and if that's also part of my job then I'm essentially a manager instead of a developer.

I hate phone based interviews, I am really bad at that, today I proved this is very true.

After nearly 3 months I finally made up my mind: I'm getting a new smartphone. Why the long wait? Well, having purchased two Windows Mobile powered phones which totally let me down I just had enough; however, I wouldn't simply go for the most obvious and popular choice - buying an iPhone - and here's why.

Welcome to the Hi-Tech Saloon. One day this will become yet another website that pretends to be an authoritative collection of programming-oriented technical articles. Until then, you won't find anything interesting here.