Twitter has implemented the OAuth login system, allowing for users to centrally control what sites have access to their Twitter accounts, without having to share their passwords with the third parties. This improvement means that there is less risk of the full account credentials being used nefariously, since the user has to log into the [...]

A discussion recently took place between myself and a few others regarding what constitutes effective marketing, and how technical people can sell their technical wares. The measure of good marketing, of course, is not hard to identify: it’s how effectively your marketing translates into sales. However, there’s a large gap in many people’s understandings of [...]

Today, the DC PHP Developer’s Group announced a new community website, at http://www.dcphp.net/. The website was the result of a few months’ discussions between key leaders in the group, including Keith Casey, Joe LeBlanc, Barry Austin and myself.

John Whitcraft tagged me with the task of writing seven things about myself, and then tagging seven others. Here’s my list.

I recently worked on an application I built some time ago. It was built before I had regard for performance or cared about how a MySQL database should be built. As such, it had no indexes.