So yesterday I talked a bit about how my love affair with Kate started. Today I'm going to give you all a secret as to why it still works. What is it? We argue well. Sound odd? Maybe but the truth is when the ball is rolling and life is good everything is just a bit sweeter. The true test of any marriage is how you endure those hard times and, trust me, we've had our fair share of those. I'll admit, most of it is me...
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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 lot of logging, right? We use Zend_Log exclusively and while I like it when coupled with Zend_Registry you've always got the following two lines of code:

    // at the beginning of our application (in a singleton or in 
  ...
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It was November in 1991 when Kate and I started dating. Being a bit modest I'm not at liberty to talk about the full circumstances surrounding how we started this romance bit I can say it was innocent, high school love. Neither of us had any real responsibilities, no career, and no commitments...it was the life (or so I thought). No, it wasn't love at first sight....sure that'd make for a better story but the truth was I remember one of the first things I said to Kate when we talked about making...
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Updated 5/29/2008: Got an anonymous troll that commented to this upset because I was so hard on the new restaurant in town. Only other thing they could come up with were some misspellings in the review itself (thanks, now fixed). The coward then suggested I go back in the fall. Actually, I was there just last week. Service was a touch better (no kids though) and the food was iffy at best. Two couples (friends) were there a week or so ago and left with the same impression. That said, I will take...
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In a rare moment when Twitter was up Ivo Jansch put me on to one of his recaps of php|tek and I was particularly interested in a presentation by Terry Chay. If you haven't heard Terry talk there are two things you will leave with:

1. Your quota for the f-bomb. I know it may sound unprofessional but he does manage to use it to draw attention to the things that really deserve it. Truth told, though, he does simply enjoy cussing.
2. A bunch of web programming goodness particularly around web development and PHP

Some have asked for the slides on the talk I gave at work about Cross Site Request Forgeries (CSRF). The topic is far from new but where I work keeping everybody on the same page, especially a healthy dose of contractors coming and going all the time. The talk had a lot of narrative and code samples that aren't covered in the slides so if you want some background on what I did/said during a particular slide just post comments to the specific page on the slideshare site.