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Share1/7/10 Update:  I submitted this post to Zend Developer Zone and they published it! Short Link: http://dz.zend.com/a/11582
So I finally took the Zend Framework plunge a few weeks ago.  No, I didn’t start building an application with the framework, but I did start investigating some of the ZF classes for stand-alone implementation in my existing projects.
The [...]

ShareLifehacker continues to move up my list of favorite sites to visit on a daily basis.  They recently ran a list of top how-to guides from 2009, and included among them is Programming 101: Teach Yourself How to Code.
PHP gets plenty of attention in the section about server-side scripting languages, althought I will note they [...]

ShareI’ve been paying more attention to web design lately.  Why?  Well I’m definitely not morphing into a designer–I don’t have the DNA for it–but rather because design is relevant, even in an enterprise environment.  As I have mentioned before, the interface matters to the end user–perhaps moreso than all the backend code you’ve spent hours [...]

ShareSmashing Magazine is more for the web “design” and photoshop crowd, but any developers working with GUI/front ends at all (which is most of us) will find tons of great information there.  Chris Blatnik says that it is the GUI that makes or breaks an app (after all, the users never see the code, no [...]