Critical theory and demagogic populism

Paul M. Jones is an internationally recognized PHP expert who has worked as everything from junior developer to VP of Engineering in all kinds of organizations (corporate, military, non-profit, educational, medical, and others). He blogs professionally at www.paul-m-jones.com and is a regular speaker at various PHP conferences.Paul's latest open-source project is Aura for PHP. Previously, he was the architect behind the Solar Framework, and was the creator of the Savant template system. He was a founding contributor to the Zend Framework (the DB, DB_Table, and View components), and has written a series of authoritative benchmarks on dynamic framework performance.Paul was one of the first elected members of the PEAR project. He is a voting member of the PHP Framework Interoperability Group, where he shepherded the PSR-1 Coding Standard and PSR-2 Coding Style recommendations, and was the primary author on the PSR-4 Autoloader recommendation. He was also a member of the Zend PHP 5.3 Certification education advisory board.In a previous career, Paul was an operations intelligence specialist for the US Air Force. In his spare time, he enjoys putting .308 holes in targets at 400 yards.