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Chatting With The Grumpy PHP Programmer
I recently had the chance to catch up with Chris Hartjes, or, as some of you may know him, ““The Grumpy Programmer.” Because he recently released a new ebook on test-driven development in PHP, I wanted to pick his brain a bit!
Q You’re widely known as “The Grumpy Programmer.” How’d this title come about?
I’m not really that grumpy in real life. Okay, maybe a little.
While I am pretty grumpy when sitting in front of a computer coding, “The Grumpy Programmer” is more of a brand; a marketing tool more than anything else. As I gained experience as a programmer, I wanted to share my ideas to help other people and myself at the same time. I felt one of the ways to make that happen was to build up my own personal brand, hence the birth of The Grumpy Programmer.
Of course, you need to have some skills to back yourself when you start playing what is essentially a cartoon version of yourself online. I wouldn’t be yelling so loudly about all this testing stuff if I didn’t actually know how to do it.
I’m not really that grumpy in real life. Okay, maybe a little.