Dustin Parham

Dustin Parham

Denver, CO
As an experienced Chief Technology Officer (CTO) with a proven track record of driving technological growth for startups and a deep understanding of the startup ecosystem.
Oct
17
Using Fibonacci Story Points for Agile Estimation

Using Fibonacci Story Points for Agile Estimation

Estimating the complexity and effort required to complete work is essential to agile software development. Utilizing a story point system
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Sep
02
Design Patterns in PHP: The Factory Pattern

Design Patterns in PHP: The Factory Pattern

I'm going to be writing a series of articles that cover different design patterns in PHP. To kick
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Aug
20
Dependency Inversion Principle

Dependency Inversion Principle

In the last article we learned about the Interface Segregation Principle. In this article we will be going over the
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Aug
20
Interface Segregation Principle

Interface Segregation Principle

In the previous article we learned about the Liskov Substitution Principle. In this Article we will be covering the Interface
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Aug
19
Liskov Substitution Principle

Liskov Substitution Principle

In our last article we learned about the Open Close Principle [https://www.leadershiptolaunch.com/open-closed-principle/]. In this article we&
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Aug
19
Open Closed Principle

Open Closed Principle

Continuing from where we left off in the Single Responsibility Principle [https://www.leadershiptolaunch.com/single-responsibility-principle/] Article, we'll
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Aug
19
Single Responsibility Principle

Single Responsibility Principle

About a year ago I was asked to do a talk covering the SOLID principles of Object Oriented Programming (OOP)
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Aug
10
Locks hanging on a steel rope.

Implementing a SAML IDP with Laravel

Recently, I was tasked with figuring out how to implement Single Sign On (SSO) between a Laravel 5.2 Application
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Aug
11
Laravel 4 Rest Composer Package on Bitbucket

Laravel 4 Rest Composer Package on Bitbucket

I've decided to take the project I've been working on and turn it into a laravel
Jul
07
Building a Laravel 4 RESTful API - Part 3

Building a Laravel 4 RESTful API - Part 3

In the last article in this series we discussed using the Laravel response model, and creating a code library in
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