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Sixty Second Tech now on iTunes

Dear Reader,
Well it took two tries but Sixty Second Tech is now on iTunes. So tell your neighbors, tell your friends and most importantly, click on over and subscribe to Sixty Second Tech on iTunes.
Until Next Time,
(l)(k)(bunny)
=C=

Tags: iTunes, sixty second tech, subscribe

For Liz Smith…

Dear Reader,
I was playing around with bitstrips.com today and this is what I came up with. Props to Liz Smith for the content.

Not sure how I feel about bitstrips.com. Like a lot of Web 2.0 projects, …it’s cute but what’s the point? (I wasn’t aware that the web needed a youtube for [...]

Ok, sometimes my brain checks out before letting the rest of my body know to stop coding. When that happens, the results are frustrating.

Another Valentines Day Poem

Dear Reader,
A friend of mine, Elizabeth Smith, sent me a link to her Valentines Day poem, “A Bit of my Mind“. I think it’s beautiful.
Until Next time,
(l)(k)(bunny)
=C=

Tags: love, poem, valentine, valentines day

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Happy Valentines Day!

Dear Reader,

Happy Valentines Day!

If you’ve not sent your love a flower, a card, some chocolate or some silly whatnot, what are you waiting for? Here is a simple and dirt cheap idea.
Go to Target and buy a simple, card. It doesn’t have to be fancy but it does need to be blank inside. Then [...]

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set_include_path() failing

Dear Reader,
The title of this post will confuse most of you but I chose it on purpose. I hit a wall last night and couldn’t find anything on the web to help me over it.
The Problem

<?PHP
var_dump(set_include_path(’./’));

Drop this little piece of code into a file and place it on your web server. What you SHOULD get [...]

Just keeping everyone up to date on what’s happening with me.

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CIO Magazine popped up on my radar this morning for an article they wrote on JavaScript. (I think I read coverage of the article on ajaxian.com) I noticed when I went to read the article that they also wrote one on PHP. I thought I would be delighted as I’ve been on their mailing list for several years now and thought that finally, they had caught a clue.

Battling with Apache and PassEnv

Learn how to use mod_env and mod_headers to insert custom headers into an HTTP request that contain environment variables.

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Book is Available, Support Site is Live

Well, my first book, php|architect’s Guide to Programming with Zend Framework has officially been released in PDF format. You can order it now or pre-order the dead-tree edition. (Cal is a happy camper)

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