Before any of what I am about to say can make any sense first know that the motivation for all this comes in light of a decision I've recently made to continue on in government a bit longer. Secondly, before I can begin to answer the question posed in the title of the...
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Technology
Will the Real Government IT Community Please Stand Up?
Video from Ignite Des Moines
This just in! So you've maybe seen the slides from my Ignite Des Moines talk. Thought that sucked? Now you get the video where I give the talk while drinking!
Nerd Herding
Last night I had a great time giving my talk on Nerd Herding at Ignite Des Moines. For those that missed the event it is the place to network with the tech/web scene in the Des Moines metro. Free food, free beer and great talks were given. For those that missed it,...
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Five Minutes of Fame (Literally)
I've been recently selected to give a talk at next week's Ignite Des Moines event. I stumbled across the event via a series of posts on Twitter and my submission on "Nerd Herding" was accepted. Now, to be fair, I first saw that phrase "Nerd Herding" somewhere on Cal...
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Web Security Demo
Yesterday, on an invitation from our Information Security Office (ISO), I had the pleasure of giving a talk on about injection flaws, Cross Site Scripting (CSS) and Cross Site Request Forgeries (CSRF). That talk had a surprisingly large turnout and crowd participation was good. Anyway, I took my old talk...
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PHP 5.3 on Mac OS X 10.5
Being the recent (and appreciative) recipient of a MacBook I've been getting all the usual development tools installed. Everything went pretty much as expected until I got to where I wanted to compile PHP5. Not just any flavor of PHP5 but a snapshot of PHP 5.3. While this focuses on...
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Book Review: Pro PHP
On my flight to the DC PHP Conference in Washington D.C. I had a chance to read a copy of Pro PHP: Patterns, Frameworks, Testing and More written by Kevin McArthur. I've never written a book, I clearly don't have a first hand appreciation for the amount of work that...
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PHP SOAP Toolkit
Michael Tutty, a friend and co-worker, gave the below talk at the DC PHP Conference . PHP SOAP Toolkit is a handy way to fill-in some of the "missing" pieces of SOAP support in PHP that make implementing both SOAP services and clients in a way that is inter-operable with other languages...
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DCPHP Slides
Thanks for all who showed up to my talk at the DC PHP Conference on "Fed Up of Framework Hype?". The slides are below and I'm sure some will ask about MVCnPHP which can be downloaded here. I know MVCnPHP isn't quite documented as much as I'd like...please ask questions...
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Cutting Use of Zend_Log in Half
As part of the framework we use at work, we borrow what we feel are the best components out there and logging is a key part of that. Logging should be simple to setup, easy to use and should minimize work on the developer. After all, you are going to do a...
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