Bill Martin

About

By day, I research, prototype, and advocate for emerging technologies on an innovation team as a senior software engineer at Raymond James.

By night, I write & record music, read fantasy, sci-fi, & programming books, flex my newly minted dadhood, and lurk stock & software subreddits.

I live in Concord, NH.

What is it like moving from PHP to Python? Part 3 explores Python’s conditional operators and loops.

What is it like moving from PHP to Python? Part 2 explores Python’s float, string, and list operators and operations.

What is it like moving from PHP to Python? What are the similarities and differences between them?

Let’s build a Node.js + Express API from scratch, connect Cloud SQL for MySQL, and deploy it all to Google Cloud using gcloud CLI.

I was building a Laravel app in Homestead, with MySQL. I later decided to use PostgreSQL. This took a bit longer than expected.

This is the quasi-comical looking back of my adventurous history as a web developer, my goofs, my successes, my failures, my hopes.

We need books, time, and silence. Thou shalt not is soon forgotten, but Once upon a time lasts forever. ― Philip Pullman

We play God when we run our code, breathing life into its lungs, with its own little Big Bang at execution time, exploding into existence.

“Don’t Make Me Think” is a classic book on web usability. This is what I learned from the book, reduced down to a three minute read.