What inspired or motivated you to give this talk at WordCamp?
I strive to write simple, easy to understand code. I’ve experienced and maintained codebases that made it very difficult to follow what was going on. Classes and OOP in general create a ‘side effect’ type application, where, without running the code and stepping through it, it’s very difficult to know what is happening in the code at any given point.Reducing utilization of OOP makes following and debugging your code much easier, and in most cases with what is being done in our use cases (building websites and web applications that utilize WordPress), it isn’t that necessary.
If you were not doing your current job, what profession would you be in and why?
I really like making things with my hands and have recently taken up woodworking as a hobby. I would love to do something like that if it were economically feasible.
What professional and/or research resource(s) can’t you live without?
I thoroughly appreciate stack overflow (so much better then the previous q&a site that used to dominate search results). I don’t know if I couldn’t live without it, but the finely curated questions and answers, along with comments and user ratings help me find answers to questions others have had.