My name is Pablo Borowicz. I live in Paris, France, and I’m a veteran software developer, team leader and manager. I started building stuff for the web for fun in 1998, and I’ve been doing that professionally since 2003.
Back in the day people would categorize me as a full-stack developer, and although this definition is losing popularity these days due to the increasing complexity of each individual stack, I still think that full-stack is the most appropriate description for my domain of competence. That said, PHP is my primary language.
I care deeply about the art of developing software. To paraphrase Steve Jobs, I think that software lies at the intersection of engineering and craftsmanship. Engineering is about cold, hard figures: performance, stability, usefulness. Craftsmanship, on the other hand, is about soft, subjective values: creativity, elegance, beauty. Software development brings the best of both worlds together.
Most of my peers regard me as a very good developer. I don’t think that means I’m specially smart; I simply have been doing this for a long time, and that has given me plenty of time to learn.
Indeed, over the years, I learned many lessons about software engineering. A few by reading or attending to conferences, some by talking with my colleagues, and a great many by analyzing my own mistakes.
This blog aims to share some of that experience, which will hopefully help reduce the global amount of mistakes made by other developers 😄.
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