Unlocking the world of object oriented design patters was perhaps my greatest period of growth as a application developer.By using Clean coding principals combined with SOLID design patterns, one not only improves the stability of their application, but also reduces development time and the accumulation of technical debt.

Extensible Markup Language (XML) is a markup language that allows you to define rule for encoding documents in a format that is both human and machine readable.

Hundreds of document formats using XML syntax have been developed, including RSS, Atom, SOAP, SVG, and XHTML. XML allows applications to integrate with external systems quickly using defined standards.

React is a popular open-source front-end JavaScript library for building user interfaces based on UI components. It is maintained by Meta (formerly Facebook) and a community of individual developers and companies.

I started working with React in 2022.

To be honest, of all the programming languages I've learned Javascript was the one that made me scream expletives at my screen for the longest time.

In the early days before jQuery browser support was hit and miss. So after spending hours tweaking behavior in one browser, you'd open you beautiful creation in another to find your page destroyed.

UIKit is quickly becoming my favorite front-end framework. It's solid grid system combined with clean flexible use of data attributes makes it easy to make beautiful user interfaces.

MySQL is an integrated transaction safe, ACID-compliant database with full commit, rollback, crash recovery, and row-level locking capabilities designed for high performance web-based applications.

As a full stack developer working primarily on LAMP stacks, I use MySQL on a daily basis to implement high performance web solutions that scale to meet the demands of our modern world.

HTML elements are the building blocks of modern web applications. HTML provides structural semantics for text such as headings, paragraphs, lists, links, quotes, images and more.

I was first introduced the the love-hate relationship that is HTML in early 90's before CSS and Javascript came along to make the web more than words on a page.

Joomla! is one of the big three content management systems. It is extendable, multilingual, accessible, and responsive. Because of its robust extendability, component centric framework and large library of pre-built components, Joomla is a go to solution for rapid application development.

I started using Joomla! in 2007, I was invited by the project leadership to attend the Joomla World Conference in 2014 and much of my MVSC model design has been integrated into the Joomla! 3.x core MVC.

AJAX stands for "Asynchronous JavaScript And XML". It uses the built-in XMLHttpRequest object in Javascript to load content onto the screen without refreshing the page.

This techniques allows applications to load faster by moving resource intensive rendering to asynchronous background data streams. Ajax isn't a new technology, or different language, it is a technique using the full capabilities of existing technologies to improve performance and user experience.

I remember the first time I came across this strange new standard called Cascading Style Sheets. Although it was love at first site (pun intended), it took a lot of tinkering to get the hang of its finer capabilities.

Before CSS almost all presentational attributes were stored in the HTML markup. This lead to duplicating much of the styling throughout the application, so any changes had to be done on every page. CSS allows the styling to be stored in a separate file and reused across the application making changes far less time intensive.

jQuery makes things like HTML document traversal and manipulation,and Ajax consistent and reliable across a multitude of browsers. The huge number of extensions available for jQuery combined with it's cross browser support make it a pleasure to use.

Laravel is a free and open-source PHP web framework based Symfony. It makes it easy to create robust MVC based applications using modern features like dependency injection and ORM.

I started working with Laravel in 2022, but its expressive syntax really makes it easy to use by anyone familiar with PHP and MVC based development.