July Slides
Wednesday, July 28th, 2010July was a month of talks and travel, including speaking at OSCON and user group talks to DCPHP and PDXPHP.
11:28 am | Comment (4) | Print | Categories: Conferences, Object-Oriented Development, PHP 5, System ArchitectureA Closer Look At ArrayObject
Monday, April 26th, 2010Every once in a while I discover a really cool, really underutilized component in PHP and I just have to write about it. I recently discovered (through my use of Zend Framework) the implementation of the ArrayObject class.
7:00 am | Comment (12) | Print | Categories: PHP 5A Lesson In Static Methods And Late Static Binding
Monday, April 12th, 2010Until last week, I had never experienced what must have been incredibly frustrating to most developers: the fact that the self keyword in PHP refers to the class it is located in, and not necessarily a class that extends it. I personally ran into this problem when trying to extend Zend_Auth. Being a singleton, the [...]
7:00 am | Comment (4) | Print | Categories: Object-Oriented Development, PHP 5, Zend FrameworkUpgrades In Open Source
Monday, March 8th, 2010PHP 5.3 has been out now for eight months, and in that time lots of projects have made decisions to begin developing against this version of PHP. Juozas Kaziukenas makes the argument that you shouldn’t be afraid of PHP 5.3 and he provides a number of excellent points to support his argument.
1:00 am | Comment (4) | Print | Categories: Open Source, PHP 5Cool DateTime Functions In PHP 5.3
Monday, January 25th, 2010Over time, the PHP DateTime object has become one of the best objects available to PHP developers. This object has grown since early PHP 5 into a robust class that has the ability to do lots of great things.
1:00 am | Comment (11) | Print | Categories: Object-Oriented Development, PHP 5
Web developer, amateur photographer, lover of the outdoors and travel. Expect to find me writing code, hiking or visiting new places. I own Blueprint DC and live in Washington, DC. Follow Me On Twitter!- July Slides
- Some Thoughts On Software Licensing
- Interfaces Make Testing Easier
- Revisiting: Why Every Developer Should Write Their Own Framework
- The Fallacy of Sunk Cost
- PHP: The Good Parts – Book Review
- 1st Amendment, Meet 4th Amendment: The Gizmodo Search Warrant
- A Closer Look At ArrayObject
- TEK Webcast Notes
- Caching For WordPress – A TEK-X Webinar
