Killing that Idea
I've written previously on Capturing your Idea and Clarifying that Idea and thought I need to write one more to…
Agenda Setting Using Hooks
As I noted yesterday, using "public", "private", "protected", and "final" in your class structures does a number of things for…
web2project: Goodbye PHP4
Well, PHP4 has been officially dead for over six months. While there are hosting companies – and even Linux distros…
Innovation and Frameworks
This past weekend after my web2project presentation at NoVaLUG, we ended up in a side discussion on languages, frameworks, etc. …
web2project: Call to Action
This week Matthew Turland wrote "stop asking, start helping" and last month Elizabeth Smith wrote "Less Whining, More Coding". While…
Another Reason for Encapsulation
Everyone knows the common reasons for Encapsulation… It hides the implementation. It hides the data from prying eyes who might…
Content Management comes to DC!
I've already mentioned the fun that will be php|tek 2009 in this space but there's so much going on between…
Clarifying that Idea
A couple weeks ago, I wrote "Capturing that Idea" and covered what it takes to capture that idea. It was…
Resume Writing 101
In the past few years, I've had the opportunity to review resumes from job candidates, friends, family, and random ones…
DCPHP & php|tek Webcast Series
This coming week – on Wednesday 14 January, to be specific – I'm presenting at the DCPHP Users' Group giving…