Facebook’s Encouraging Worst Practices

October 31, 2009

I’m not a huge fan of Facebook to begin with, however they are an undeniable part of any online marketing strategy and are likely to remain as such for at least another 6-10 months (which is an eternity by web standards). I’ve recently been working on a Facebook application built on the Zend Framework. Our [...]

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Getting ready for PHP6

October 30, 2009

Stefan approached me awhile back to produce a short series of videos on what developers should be expecting as of PHP 5.3+. I try to keep the content of my tutorials in the context of trying to solve a specific problem. The project in this case is a home-grown MVC framework. I’ve borrowed some of [...]

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Interview with the Gang of Four

October 25, 2009

My father sent this wonderful interview to me with the author’s of the book “Design Patterns”. I still find that it introducing people who aren’t software engineers to the concept of web architecture, design patterns and software development workflow that it still takes a bit for someone to see how someone could appreciate the design [...]

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new jQuery set launched on KillerPHP

October 10, 2009

Stefan’s been a terrific resource for my own professional development and I’ve also had the opportunity to produce videos for his sites, KillerPHP and KillerJavascript. The latest video set will guide the viewer through developing a simple application with jQuery. I try and emphasize the software paradigm rather than building a particular controller since I [...]

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Flyt Foundation Site Launched

October 6, 2009

About a year ago, my friend (and former substitute teacher!) Mike Savatovsky told me about a wonderful organization that he was intent on starting. Mike is someone who’s always been interested in providing people with education. I fondly remember sitting in class with Mike and remarking how apt a teacher he was.
When we started working [...]

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NetBeans Code Template for Unit Testing

August 3, 2009

I’ve been taking the time to configure my installation of NetBeans recently and I’ve re-discovered my love for code templates. Code templates allow the developer to make a shortcut to boiler plate code snippets which usually have targetted keywords. In the latest Zendcast video tutorial, I started showing off a code template I made by [...]

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