David Shirey

David Shirey

Dave Shirey is owner of Shirey Consulting Services which provides business and technical project management, EDI set up and support, and various technical services for the mainframe, midrange, and desktop worlds. In addition to PHP Master, he also writes frequently for MC Press and Pro Developer (formerly System iNews). In his free time, he tends to worry vaguely about the future and wonder obsessively how different his life might have been if he had just finished working on that first novel when he got out of college.

David's articles

Continuous Deployment Revisited
Continuous Deployment Revisited
PHP

By David Shirey,

Read Continuous Deployment Revisited and learn with SitePoint. Our web development and design tutorials, courses, and books will teach you HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP, Python, and more.

Technical Debt
Technical Debt
PHP

By David Shirey,

The term “technical debt” describes the effects of maintaining rushed code and compares the technical things we do with the financial concept of debt.

PHP and the i, Part 3
PHP and the i, Part 3
PHP

By David Shirey,

Business screens are different from the pages we're used to developing for a blog or website. Form organization and efficient data entry are important.

PHP and the i, Part 1
PHP and the i, Part 1
PHP

By David Shirey,

In this series I want to talk to you about PHP – and the IBM I. That’s right, the IBM i, formerly known as System i and before that as the AS/400.