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During my last job, I occasionally was invited to interview candidates for the web development team. Usually I’d receive a copy of their resume a few days beforehand with the instructions to review it, and I’d take a few minutes to read their resume and usually pop them into Google to take a look at [...]

When I began writing this blog back in August of 2008, I stated that I wanted to write about the things that I cared about.

At the time that list included a slice of technology, largely focused on the LAMP stack. As I’ve changed over the years, I’ve also increased the things that I care [...]

Every developer has a toolkit of favorite tools and applications that help them develop more effectively. Being individuals, developers often differ (and in some cases, argue) about the tools they use.

One of the most frequent questions I’m asked is “what are the tools you use?” and that was the genesis of this blog post.

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Full-body scanners? They may see you naked, but they aren't seeing large, scary razor blades. Adam Savage of Mythbusters explains.

July was a month of talks and travel, including speaking at OSCON and user group talks to DCPHP and PDXPHP.

For those who saw the “Micro Optimize This!” talk, you can download the slides here. For those looking for the “Five Tips To Make Good Object Oriented Code Better” slides, those are available here.

This past week saw a huge dust-up over the issue of whether or not WordPress themes are GPL. It’s not my goal to rehash the debate, or even to discuss it in particular; instead, my goal is to share some thoughts I’ve had about software licensing, and in particular, licensing going forward as a result [...]

I, along with others, have written on interfaces many times before but recently I had occasion to find a new thing about them that makes them really awesome.

A few days ago I was tasked with implementing PHPUnit against a Zend Framework application. This application, like many others, makes use of Zend_Auth, and in doing [...]

Wez Furlong received a copy of PHP: The Good Parts as a thank you for his participation as a technical reviewer, and loaned it to me for a read.

After reading it, I wanted to put together a brief review of the book for those who might be interested in this new title from O’Reilly.

My [...]

Every once in a while I discover a really cool, really underutilized component in PHP and I just have to write about it.

I recently discovered (through my use of Zend Framework) the implementation of the ArrayObject class. ArrayObject is an object that is designed to behave exactly like an array.

If that seems confusing, don’t [...]

Brandon Savage has posted a reminder for those interested in caching in their WordPress installations - he'll be giving a webcast (as a part of the TEK-X series) on just that.