Parents of stubborn teenagers rejoice, or at least relax: That adolescent attitude stems, in part, from the vagaries of brain development.
The gray matter of the brain peaks just before puberty and is pruned back down throughout adolescence, with some of the most dramatic development happening in the frontal lobes, the seat of judgment and decision-making.
A 2005 study published in the journal Child Development found that the parts of the brain responsible for multitasking don’t fully mature until we’re 16 or 17 years old. And research presented at the BA Festival of Science in 2006 revealed that teens also have a neural excuse for self-centeredness. When considering an action that would affect others, teens were less likely than adults to use the medial prefrontal cortex, an area associated with empathy and guilt. Teens learn empathy by practicing socializing, the researchers said. So much for grounding them until they’re 20.
I’m finally doing it! I like to think I’ve been waiting for the right time. Watching to see who comes out with the best tools and how the most prevalent products mature before I invest my life’s energy into learning something but maybe I’m just chicken or have an averse reaction to change.
I’m taking the plunge into moving everything I’ve learned about programming for the web into and IDE and basing applications on Frameworks. I’ve read all the debates about which is which and the one that comes out on top for me is Zend Framework. Not only is this a loosely coupled set of libraries that can be used creatively and independently it’s a perfect Model View Controller ( MVC ) framework if you want to use it that way. It supports libraries for javascript like Dojo, Prototype and Scriptaculous as well as most DBs and all of Googles APIs . Zend is backed by an actually successful commercial entity and has become the engine that PHP runs on. Unbelievably IBM provides hoards of professional information for working with the Framework and as if that wasn’t enough I like it.
So finally this is it .. Cloud Application Production on a professional level governed by patterns and structure along with best practices and all the security you can shake a stick at. I feel a little sick to my stomach when I think of leaving all my personal little inventions and creative babies behind but it’s not as if there is less creativity ahead.. just less chaos hopefully and more potential for collaboration.
I’ll keep my progress posted here to the best of my flaky ability for anyone else who might be taking the plunge. If you have any questions feel free to drop me a line but I can’t promise I’ll have time to respond or be useful to you but I do promise I’ll do what I can to help you out.
I’ve actually been working components of Zend into Toogo for quite some time but not in the context of the Zend Framework. I’m starting the big plunge though by learning the Zend IDE which I’ve just started doing. I’ve realized along the way that using the Zend community server stack is the best way to go and I’m setting that up as well. I’m running the server off of a uSB powered portable drive that I can work with anywhere along with a hoard of portable apps to support what I normally work with. This means I can work on any machine anywhere if I have the drive with me.
I’ve used my own configuration of WAMP in the past and last year switched to xampp which has been nice but honestly I kind of preferred my own configuration as I prefer to be able to get my hands into the machine and mess with it but this stack seems to be an even further step from that and to me so far it’s a black box but we’ll see how that goes as I get into it.
See you next time .
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