About
Travis Swicegood is a professional programmer and owner of Domain51;, a web development company with a focus on non-profits, NGOs, and online activists. He doesn't change the world, he supports those who do.
He has personal a focus on web applications, performance, and stability; is author of Pragmatic Version Control using Git; and working on his second book. He has been using PHP;; since '99 and still remembers how revolutionary PHP 4 was, but can't remember why. He's a TDD, open-source, and open government advocate—sometimes called a zealot—and lurker on many an open-source project mailing list when not learning other programming; languages; for fun, exploring his surroundings on bike;, or tasting his latest kitchen and home-brew creations.
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Recent Posts
- I won't be attending PyCon 2010
- Open Government in Kansas
- Are we our brother's keeper?
- Packaging reuseabe & testable Django apps with virtualenv, pip, and Fabric
- The problem with Python namespaces modules (or, Python Namespaces. There be dragons this way.)
- Books I don't recommend if you're starting out
- Recap of ZendCon 09
- Lawrence Programmers Hack Nights
- John Deere and iPhones
- My Productivity Hack: 4 hour work day and GTD
- My run in with American Airlines at Code Works SFO -> LAX
- Don't just remember, make it better
- My introduction to Timeless Way of Building
- Making the Hang: My Story
- Compiling Node.js on Ubuntu 9.04
- Breaking News: Kansas Governor Supports Profanity, Nudity, and Violence on State Website!
- Fuck off, humanity!
- My goals for the PHP standards group
- Magic is to Python as Java is to PHP
- Race Report: God's Country Duathalon