This post was lifted wholesale from Cal Evans's post from DevZone. I think he summed it up well and I had nothing to add. Today, the PHP community mourns the passing of a friend. Three weeks ago, Richard Thomas, community member and friend to all who knew him passed away. I had planned on writing […]

In the last few months or so, it appears the PHP Community has finally found the Joel Test.  Lorna Jane spoke about it last month at PHPNW 09 and this week Brandon Savage adapted it for web development.  While I’d love to point out the fact that I’ve been writing about the Joel Test for […]

At php|tek 2009 this year, I picked up a copy of php|architect’s Guide to PHP Design Patterns by Jason Sweat.  In the following month (June), I read it and took a number of notes. First off, personally, I come from a Java background and got deep into Design Patterns there.  Reading Fowler’s “Patterns of Enterprise […]

Yes, you read that correctly, we’re getting close to our v1.1 release. We’ve been working quietly behind the scenes to make a number of things happen.  Some are big, some are tiny, but here’s a rough list of them: Unfortunately, a number of bugs – most just annoying, one important – made it into the […]

I’ve been quiet on web2project for the past few weeks, but I thought I should share some of the latest developments. The single biggest improvement currently is the inclusion of Unit Testing. Unit Testing has been on the agenda for months and years.  The problem was that something else – often bugs, sometimes new features […]

A few weeks ago, Chris Shiflett author of Essential PHP Security was nice enough to give me some time for an interview on CodeSnipers. I figured the least I could do is give him and the community some feedback on his book. Read on for details. I've been a software developer for quite a few […]