Last month was a record month, fueled by a front-page story at Reddit. This blog had 27,663 unique visitors with 52,343 visits and 125,164 page views. That’s an astounding amount of support from the PHP community and the programming community at large. Thank you. I’m overwhelmed, and excited that this blog has the ability to [...]

As Benjamin Franklin once famously said, “the only two things that are certain in life are death and taxes.” His point, while political, has a good perspective on one of life’s ever-persistent truths: the fact that governments exist in every country, and, largely, they have some of the same benefits and drawbacks everywhere.

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.