Postcards From My Life

I’m a lucky man. I get to talk with a lot of developers and web development shops. No matter where in the world I am, one constant refrain I hear is, “Yep, we are done with the site, waiting on the client now to write the content.” OK, so most of my European friends don’t say, “Yep,” but you get the idea. Consistently, content is the last part of the equation in a website and one of the speed bumps many developers hit in deploying a website on time.

Read the entire post, Are Your Painters Standing around While You Pick Out Colors? over at meryl.net

If you are looking about to hire a developer to build you a website and are looking for help and guidance, read my new book on the subject, “Avoiding a Goat Rodeo: How to get the website you want“. Investing $10 in the book could save you hundreds on your project.

Dear Reader,

I need help with my book. I am looking for 3-5 small business owners who are considering having a website designed for their company. My book helps small business owners understand the process and get the most for their money by not wasting it.

If you are a small business owner and want to participate, please email me at cal [at] calevans [dot] com. For your time, you will received one of a very limited run of printed copies of the book, signed by me expressing my thanks to you personally.

Most of the people that read this blog (outside of my family…and I’m not entirely sure they read it) are technically oriented. THIS BOOK IS NOT FOR YOU. However, you probably know someone who could help me. If you do, please put them in touch with me.

Thank you for any help you can give me on this exciting project.

Until next time,
I <3 |<
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Dear Reader,

I met Kevlin Henny back in 2007 at the PHPUK Conference in London. (For a year or so I called him Kevin Hennly until I finally got it right) One day out of the blue, Kevlin droped me an email and invites me to participate in a new project he’s working on for O’Reilly, a collaborative book called “97 Things Every Programmer Should Know“. Not being one who is ever short of advice and opinions to give, I gladly submitted two entries that eventually made their way through the editing process and into the final book.
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Dear Reader,

I’m a Guest Blogger

If you know me personally, follow me on twitter, read my blog or attend conferences I’m at, you know that I am never at a loss for an opinion. A couple of weeks ago, “Don” Marco Tabini pinged me on IM and made me an offer I couldn’t refuse. He asked me if I wanted to be a guest blogger for phparch.com. I’m not sure he knew what he was getting into because I wrote one a day for 5 days. Obviously though, he liked at least some of what I had to say because he has posted three of them already.
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Dear Reader,

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)

I would be remiss if I did not say thank you once again to Marco, Elizabeth and Matthew for their help and guidance. Also, a huge thank you to Laura Thomson for writing the forward.

On a related note, the support site for the book, www.zfguide.com is now live. Currently, the only thing there are links to the source code examples but I have plans for posting any errata, discussing different parts of the book and eventually releasing a series of tutorials called “The Missing Chapters”. (because there was a lot I just didn’t get to cover)

Until next time,
(l)(k)(bunny)