July Slides

Wednesday, July 28th, 2010

July was a month of talks and travel, including speaking at OSCON and user group talks to DCPHP and PDXPHP.

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Interfaces Make Testing Easier

Wednesday, May 26th, 2010

I, along with others, have written on interfaces many times before but recently I had occasion to find a new thing about them that makes them really awesome. A few days ago I was tasked with implementing PHPUnit against a Zend Framework application. This application, like many others, makes use of Zend_Auth, and in doing [...]

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PHP: The Good Parts – Book Review

Monday, May 3rd, 2010

Wez Furlong received a copy of PHP: The Good Parts as a thank you for his participation as a technical reviewer, and loaned it to me for a read. After reading it, I wanted to put together a brief review of the book for those who might be interested in this new title from O’Reilly.

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A Closer Look At ArrayObject

Monday, April 26th, 2010

Every 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.

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TEK Webcast Notes

Wednesday, April 21st, 2010

Last Friday, I did a webcast as a part of the PHP TEK Webcast series. The webcast was on Caching for WordPress. We had a good turnout, and there were lots of questions about the best plugins to use for WordPress caching.

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