That makes two magazine articles this year and I’ll miss my other goal for the year, a book published, by a month or so.

For about an hour or two today, I had the top two posts on planet-php.org

Dear Reader,
Most of you know, but some of you may not know, that one of the consulting services I provide is helping people identify and hire quality PHP programmers. I’ve been hiring developers for a long time now and inevitably, someone will ask me in a conversation, “How can I find good programmers?” Since [...]

Dear Reader,
A lot of people like to complain about bad service, me included. However, I want to give a shoutout to Aaron, the Customer Service Agent for Southwest Airlines, San Francisco, Gate 25, Friday morning, October 12th, 2007. I was stuck at SFO because of weather. Aaron worked with me for almost an hour [...]

Dear Reader,
When did we become a rude nation? I mean we are not France rude, but none-the-less, we are rude. I’ve give you 2 examples.
Language
I’m on my way back from a great time in California. I love the weather there (except today because it’s got me socked in at SFO) I’ve truly [...]

Dear Reader,
Today in #phpc (irc.freenode.net…drop by and say hi!) Ben Ramsey pointed me to this blog on being starstruck at php|works. He blogged it and the conversation that ensued. However, I wanted to add one point.
I know all the people mentioned in that blog and not one of them (us) considers ourselves anything other than [...]

Dear Reader,
Happy Talk Like A Pirate Day!

(Photo by:Sebastian Bergman from ZendCon ‘06)
Until next time,
(l)(k)(yar)
=C=

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Dear Reader,
A while back a blogger named John wrote a snarky review of my review of Professional Search Engine Optimization with PHP. While his review was a bit on the “untrue” side and prompted me to write Just Say No to SEO, his blog was interesting enough to put in my feed reader and [...]

Dear Reader,
Several people have brought to my attention that Adobe is using my likeness in an ad. Yes, I wrote an article a while back that was published on both DevZone and in php|architect. (THE PHP magazine…if you are not a subscriber, you need to go now and subscribe, this content will be [...]

Dear Reader,
w00t! I’m back in print. It’s been a long drought (10 years since my last FoxPro Advisor article?) but I’m BACK BABY!
Everybody reading this blog (both of you) rush right out and buy a copy of php|architect. Then, after an appropriate amount of time, write them and tell them how wonderful [...]