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ShareSorry for the hyperbolic headline, that’s just to get your attention. Now that I have you here, lets have a serious discussion.
The TIOBE Index was just updated with the February programming language rankings, and the PHP community seems to be a mild panic about dropping two spots in the rankings (from 3rd to 5th) [...]

ShareEagerly anticipating event details for the 1st PHP Community Conference. A little background is available on Ben Ramsey’s blog.
Best of all, its local for me

Sharei’m enjoying my time at ZendCon 2010. I spent all day Monday in Christian Wenz’s PHP Certification Bootcamp. This was an extensive overview on the kinds of questions that appear on the PHP 5.3 certification exam as well as some exam strategies and “gotchas” to look out for. My exam was was [...]

ShareIts quite possible you found this blog while googling around for information on PHP.  If that’s true, and you’re a newbie trying to learn PHP, I’d like to direct you over to a new post on Six Revisions entitled Learn PHP: Get Started Using PHP by Elias Zerrouq. After a brief history of the language, [...]

ShareThanks to a slight relaxation in departmental travel/education funds, I get to go to a conference this fiscal year.  I chose ZendCon, and I’m pretty excited about it.
Unless I find other folks from my institution that are also going, I’ll be “flying solo”…an introvert at a geek conference…should be interesting.
Anyway, I’ll try to resist my [...]

ShareI’ve stayed silent on the iPhone 4 antenna “debacle”, and I frankly think that although there is a legitimate issue at the heart, it has been overblown by a media eager to find a chink in Mr. Jobs’ armor.
Before I get too far into this let me just say I’ve become quite the Apple fan [...]

ShareMatt Butcher’s new blog entry, Never Use $_GET Again, discusses using the filter_input function that is available in php 5.2+ to remedy concerns about input validation.  Its an elegantly simple approach that solves a busload of problems.  This is worth reading and I think is going to not only be worth implementing but also worth [...]

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 [...]

ShareMy Snow Leopard disk arrived Friday, and I promptly began upgrading my three Macs (A 2008 Mac Pro and early 2008 MacBook Pro at work, and a 2008 Mac Pro at home).
I’ve read very few horror stories so far about folks and their upgrades.  I had no issues whatsoever.  Install took about 1 hour for [...]