I fly out to Chicago tomorrow morning for php|tek where I’ll be giving my talk “What Can PHP Learn From Ruby On Rails” on Thursday. The talk is significantly different from the one I gave in Vancouver back in February (with colour and graphics even!) as I’ve cut down the number of slides so I [...]
Thanks to everyone for the great comments to my previous post on this topic. I think I may have found the answer to what I was looking for. Cal Evans over at the Zend Developer Zone gave me a heads-up that he would be posting a tutorial on using Flex and PHP. I believe my [...]
“After PHP 6, I think that’s it for PHP.” Those words were spoken to me by my boss while we were having lunch at the crazy-busy sushi buffet restaurant near the office. I choked a bit on my food. After all, my boss is a former Zend employee and utterly competent PHP programmer. “There’s no [...]
Now that I have to actually design interfaces for other people, I am learning the finer details of Javascript. Specifically, I'm using JQuery as my library of choice. I won't go into why I'm using, just go to the site and see it for yourself. One of the things I've had to build recently is [...]
Now, this might sound like a weird thing to say, but as a programmer I think you fall in one of two categories: you're a carpenter or you're a sculptor. This relates to how you build your applications from scratch, and it says a lot about your programming style. A carpenter starts with a few [...]
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