Eric Mann's Blog

  • What is a Thought Leader?

    The other day, I stirred up a minor discussion on Twitter regarding the term “thought leader.”

  • Conference Types

    There are two kinds of conferences: Those where you invest in the community and those from which you reap a return on that investment. Which kind of conference do you attend more often?

  • Hyper-VVV on Windows

    It took me a little trial and error to set up, but this weekend I managed to port my entire WordPress development stack not just to a new machine, but also to a new virtualization provider – Hyper-V.

  • What is your Digital Footprint?

    Applications that used to fit in a few megabytes now consume a gigabyte – or more – to do essentially the same thing. I find this development a bit disturbing.

  • Life is Precious

    My trip home from Brazil took far longer than expected.

  • Thought Leadership

    A thought leader has to do more than think about problems.

  • Client-side Productivity Tools with Node

    I’ve been a fan of Node since we were first introduced in 2011. Unfortunately, it’s taken me a few years to come up with a compelling business use for Node.

  • Differentiation and Diversity

    I’d rather learn something new and struggler at it than be at the top of my game with nowhere to go but down.

  • Unexpected Networking

    I honestly feel I did more talking and networking while stuck in remote airports and hotels than I’ve ever done at a conference.

  • PHP, Security, and Lambdas

    If you’re writing PHP code and you want to use lambda functions, don’t use PHP’s create_function() method. It’s insecure, and will be flagged as such by security software and analysts.