Technology

I use TweekDeck as my Twitter client and recently I had to rebuild my Ubuntu Linux desktop which meant trying to remember all the “tweaks” I had to make. One of these is the annoying fact that TweetDeck tries to use some deprecated Gnome environment variable to determine the default browser (clearly not many...
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I’ve been increasingly frustrated by Google Chrome’s ability to play Flash minus sound. I don’t know what Flash plugin they are using but, luckily, the fix is easy. I just: #>mkdir /opt/google/chrome/plugins #>sudo cp /opt/Adobe\AIR/Versions/1.0/Resources/libflashplayer.so . You’l notice I’m using the AIR version but my guess is you could use the one bundled with...
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I’ve recently decided to make the switch to Doctrine as the ORM of choice for any new PHP projects we work on. I didn’t make this decision lightly as, until now, I have been a long time user and advocate of Propel having given talks on it at PHP conferences and even a webinar...
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My guess is this will largely go un-noticed but I felt a formal blog post was in order for announcing my decision to stop contributing to AptitudeCMS and Geeklog.
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I hate this phenomenon on Twitter called Follow Friday (referred to via the #ff and #followfriday hashtags). Get ready for a big dose of hater-ade because I've endured this crap for the past few Friday's, filling up my Twitter stream and it's gone beyond the point of ridiculous. So why am...
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Two weeks ago MVCnPHP v0.3.0 was released into the wild. This update really addresses only two things:

1. CSRF Protection - If your views use the built in support for Flexy (via the class BaseViewFlexy) then your forms will automatically have a Cross Site Request Forgery token added to the...
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This is just a friendly reminder that this Friday, March 27th from 12pm-1pm CST I will be giving a webinar on using Propel, an object relational mapper (ORM). This webinar is just one of a series being sponsored by php|architect. The webinar will focus on the basics of...
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I will start this blog entry by saying I like Zend Framework. I really do. However, the part of ZF I don't use is the MVC implementation. No, it's not bad. Actually it's a good implementation that is the product of a lot of hard work by Zenders and...
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It never fails. Once in a while (today being one of them) I get questions from friends about Twitter an why they should use it. I use to point them to one of my blog posts on the subject. That might be enough to get people to sign up but...
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I wanted to give a heads-up to all the PHP, Mac and Oracle fans that I just had an article published on the Oracle Technology Network (OTN). It's been in the works for months but has only just recently been published. I have to give Christopher Jones a lot of credit...
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