November 2008

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  Handling Multiple Environments In Your PHP Application

  11.28.08 | Permalink | 15 Comments

  In anticipation of my talk at PHP Quebec 2009 I've been going over my slides and thinking about what I'm going to update for it. One little nugget I'd thought I'd share is one way of handling having multiple environments your code must run in. For a work application, I have *three* environments that the [...]

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  Converting Legacy Apps to CakePHP, Part 1

  11.27.08 | Permalink | 3 Comments

  In order to make some extra money, I do side projects from time to time. In my rapidly dwidling spare time I have been working on a project to convert an existing site for a legal services company over to PHP. I'm *this* close to being done, so I thought I'd share what I went [...]

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  Come Heckle Me At The 2009 PHP Quebec Conference!

  11.19.08 | Permalink | Comments Off

  I just got word that my proposal to give a version of my "Deployment Is Not A 4-Letter Word" talk has been accepted for 2009 PHP Quebec Conference. It's actually within driving distance for me (5 hours) or maybe I can chill and take the train. Either way, I'll be there from March 4 to [...]

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  Making Mistakes So You Don’t Have To: Development Tools

  11.17.08 | Permalink | 3 Comments

  I've been thinking about topics for conference talk submissions a lot lately (I have a serious case of conference envy the last little while), which usually gets my dev juices going and trying to make a better dev environment for myself. I've started using a few newer techniques so forgive me if some of these [...]

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  What’s In Chris’ Brain: November 2008 Issue

  11.05.08 | Permalink | 2 Comments

  My apologies for the slowdown in posting. I have a Side Project For Money That Will Not Die and it is occupying almost all my spare time outside of work and family commitments. In the aftermath of the most historic election ever in the United States of America, here is what I've been thinking about: [...]

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