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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Unit Testing within the NetBeans 6.7.1 UI

August 1, 2009

With Zend Studio for Eclipse 7 approaching its release date, I find myself once again comparing it to NetBeans, my previous development environment. I can safely say that I’m enjoying the code templates and intelligent PHP refactoring support. I finally feel like something in the PHP community is approaching what C# and Java developers have [...]

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METAphrenie website update

July 21, 2009

Last July I had the pleasure of working with METAphrenie, a design company based in Berlin (now Dubai Media City) on a zend-based application for handling client reviews. Recently they contacted me to do some work on their frontend, redo the javascript, UI layer and add a few sections. They do some fantastic work, so [...]

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Review of Learning Dojo

April 23, 2009

Recently, Packt contacted me about doing a review of Learning Dojo.
The author, Peter Svennson, is probably one of the most qualified people in the world to be writing a book about Dojo, considering he’s a contributor. The book takes plenty of time covering some of the more common Dijits and how best to apply them [...]

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Visualize Design Patterns Across Disciplines

April 22, 2009

I’ve always been interested in the idea that abstractions can help us discover new relationships that weren’t
inherently visible in the implementation that we’re trying to tackle. With that thinking in mind, I put together a little engine to help me visualize design patterns that I’ve drawn. You can navigate the interface with your arrow keys [...]

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