software architect

I’m happy to announce that I’ll be joining Half Off Depot, LLC as Lead Software Architect on June 27th.

Half Off Depot is a growing, promising startup here in Atlanta.

As you might gather from the name, they’re in the daily deals space, sort of along the lines of Groupon and LivingSocial.

As of this writing, they have been focusing on the Atlanta, Georgia and Knoxville, Tennessee markets.

I’ll be focusing on a number of areas, both server-side and in the mobile app arena, in addition to helping build the technology team.

I’ve finally had a chance to read a book I bought a while ago called “97 Things Every Software Architect Should Know – Collective Wisdom from the Experts”.

Not the shortest title for a book, but very descriptive. I bought this book at the OSCON Conference in Portland last year.

It’s an interesting book and I’m sure anyone involved in software development would benefit from reading it.

Here's what was popular in the PHP community one year ago today:

• Christian Wenz's Blog: Installing PHP on Windows 7
• Abhinav Singh's Blog: MySQL Query Cache, WP-Cache, APC, Memcache - What to choose
• Ant Phillips' Blog: PHP/Groovy Bridge
• Make Me Pulse: Using the Zend Framework URL rewriting
• NETTUTS.com: Sanitize and Validate Data with

As mentioned in this official release on their site, the Appcelerator project has officially launched PHP support for their product as an extension.

Brian LeRoux is Nitobi’s Software Architect, and is involved in shepherding the PhoneGap open source project.

You can read his blog, or find him on Twitter.