A good chunk of this blog post was posted over at DevZone. However, this one contains more personal observations and general nuttiness.
I’ve just returned from my second trip to the Netherlands and, as with the first one, I had a wonderful time. This time, I was honored to speak at the PHP Business Seminar [...]

Dear Reader,
I had the pleasure of attending OSBC last week. All in all, it was a positive experience. However, my eyes were opened to a whole new side of Open Source.
Most of you know that I work quite closely with the PHP community. It’s my job. It’s a rough life but somebody has [...]

Dear Reader,
Since I posted originally railing against CIO Magazine for their article, “You used PHP to Write WHAT?!?” I felt it only fair that I point out to you that they have now posted an article written by my friend John Coggeshall, “PHP’s Enterprise Strengths and Weaknesses, Take 2″.
I’ve got a more detailed post over [...]

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

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.

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.

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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Last week, php|architect announced my book, “php|architect’s Guide to Programming the Zend Framework”.