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Looking forward to PHP Community Conference

Eagerly anticipating event details for the 1st PHP Community Conference. A little background is available on Ben Ramsey’s blog. Best of all, its local for me

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Minify and Compress all your JavaScript files into One, on the Fly

As my applications have grown in complexity, I’ve followed a path probably quite similar to many of you with respect to .js file maintenance. In the beginning I had one js file to include in the...

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OMG, PHP is Losing to Ruby, Python?

Sorry for the hyperbolic headline, that’s just to get your attention. Now that I have you here, lets have a serious discussion. The TIOBE Index was just updated with the February programming language...

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Dear Oracle

Been a while since I posted.  I’ve been extremely busy. One of the things occupying my time lately has been a marked increase in the need to interact with Oracle databases. DISCLAIMER:  this is a rant...

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Refactoring to Zend Framework

Over the course of several weeks, I recently took an existing web app I had started from scratch 5 years ago and refactored it into a full stack Zend Framework application.  This involved several steps...

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Reports of the web’s demise have been greatly exaggerated…

The Financial Times just announced they are pulling their iOS app and will focus exclusively on their HTML5 web app for delivering content to mobile devices. This is cause for mild celebration for Web...

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Make your own MacBook docking station slash adapter holder slash cable sorter...

Problem:  New Macbook Pro, two offices, lots of peripherals/monitors/etc to plug in and disconnect at least twice a day. I plug in four to five different items into my new MacBook Pro with Retina...

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Follow up to Make your own Macbook Docking Station thingy

Cole Flourney has proposed a great little project on Quirky.com to build an aesthetically pleasing, integrated docking cable adapter, much like the W1PPS solution that failed at Kickstarter.  Please...

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Wow I’m behind…

Occurs to me I have not posted anything here in a while now.  Been busy beyond words both at home and at work.  Let me see what might be interesting to share.  Stand by…

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Apple Watch One Year In

A lot of virtual ink has been spilled the past few weeks writing about the pros and cons of Apple Watch one year into its life. Folks are talking about must-have features for version 2 and of course...

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