Archive for 2008

60 Days is an idea I had while trying to decide what to do with the domains I have sitting around doing nothing — (well nothing but being a nagging reminder that I’ll never have time for every idea that pops into my head, and that domain names cost money to keep).

The Goal

• Finish a real world site every 60 days using a different PHP framework.
• Post an ongoing review of the framework being used.
• Have fun.

60 Days will launch January 1st 2009. ...

I’ve been away for a while taking care of “real life”, I had been thinking maybe I’m not destined to blog. Yet, its time to renew several of my domains and I just can’t part with this one nor can I see leaving it in its abandoned state. So I’m going to try something different -for me- and come up with an actual plan of action to get back on track. I’ll be back in a couple ...

A couple weeks ago I read a few posts where the authors discussed what they had accomplished that day. I thought I would do something similar and talk about what is in my IDE each week. Using the term IDE very loosely (for those of you who are super literal).

XAJAX replacement

If you are familiar with XAJAX you know it is an easy way to integrate PHP and AJAX, if you aren’t familiar with it you should go ...

Performance

Everybody is expecting lots of traffic. Thats the trend of last weeks posts anyway, there were at least 7 articles on the subject. It is one of my favorite topics, unfortunately I never have enough traffic to see any of them actually solve a problem for me.

• .htaccess – gzip and cache your site for faster loading and bandwidth saving
• Dealing with Traffic – Part 1: Media files
• Caching PHP pages
• Behold WordPress, Destroyer ...
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Judging by the number PHP of articles last week, spring is here. I can understand that since I find it extremely hard to focus on the computer screen when the weather is so beautiful, It almost hurt to write this article . I try to enjoy the spring while it lasts until the heat of summer arrives to drive me back inside, most summer days here will be over 100F well into the ...

Two posts last week reminded me of a daily question my dad would ask me at the end of the day. Travis Swicegood answers the question Whad did You do today? which inspired Ken Guest to do the same with What I’ve done recently. I always hated answering that question for some reason, I can tell you now that the correct answer to give my dad was not “I don’t know” or “nothing”. I hated ...

April fools came and went, I didn’t get fooled. Thats sad, I love April fools day and this had to be the lamest year ever.

It was spring cleaning time this weekend so my computers were all unhooked and disassembled this weekend while everything was scrubbed clean. That spilled over into Monday which has now become Tuesday. That means everybody gets a break from my weekly reviews. Except this little tiny bit:

Subtle Digs

This caught my interest DHH ...

Lukas Smith recently posted an article talking about the need for an organization within the PHP community saying:

There are is fundamental concept that I see in this vision:
emPHPower is a mediator and catalyst that empowers members of the community to follow their own ideas

Professional Organizations Matter

I have been a member of a much smaller organization which adopted a similar mission. The reputation and livelihoods of this group had been damaged by years of infighting, bad legislation ...

I have been doing some research on build tools this last week, and was hoping some new articles would crop up that were related so I could accomplish two things at once, write my weekly review and learn about new tools, unfortunately that didn’t happen.

There were a few articles about tools I already use and Getting an overview of all targets accumulated in a Phing build file actually told me something I didn’t know, the best part was ...

I’m a little late with the Weekly Reader, I spent some time with my family on Sunday and a hectic day at work on Monday. Luckily there wasn’t much going on in my reader this last week that just had to be here, so this will be short otherwise it won’t make it out before next weeks review.

Zend again

You really have to admire the way the ZF community keeps up the flow of information about the Zend Framework. Other ...