TAG - PROGRAMMING

When The Sea Is Too Rough to Sail, Repair The Nets: A Software Developer's Perspective

In my earlier days as a software developer I used to think progress meant visible movement. A new repository. A new feature. A new commit and push. Deploy. If I was not shipping something, I felt like I was standing still.

Every developer eventually experiences rough seas. Clients disappear. Requirements...

What Are Bugs

What Bugs Are, How They Come Into Existence, and How We Manage Them Effectively

In software development, bugs are often spoken about as failures. In reality, they are an inevitable byproduct of building complex systems operated by humans, used in unpredictable ways, and deployed across changing environments. Understanding what bugs...

Not Everything Requires Fixing

In software development, there is a reflexive response to anything labeled a “problem”: fix it. An alert fires, a ticket is logged, a user complains, and the assumption is that something is broken. In reality, not everything that appears wrong is actually defective, and not everything that is defective requires...

Troubleshooting the Unknown: A Developer’s Reality

From the outside, fixing a bug often looks straightforward. Something breaks, a developer investigates, a fix is applied, and the problem disappears. In reality, the hardest part of software development is not fixing known problems, it is troubleshooting the unknown.

Every bug report represents a gap between what the user experienced...

PHP Is Not Dead: Dispelling the Myths

If you’ve been part of the software development community for any length of time, you’ve likely encountered the annual debate: "Is PHP dead?" It’s an argument that refuses to go away, fueled by biases, misconceptions, and a lack of understanding of PHP’s enduring relevance.

As someone with hands-on experience in PHP,...