February 13, 2009 – 5:07 pm
I have a bit of a rant in me right now so you may want to duck and cover. Although I tend to disagree with some of the rabid and rather constraining ideologies in the open source community, I have always agreed with the basic issue that the source code should be open so that [...]
Learning PHP Data Objects by Dennis Popel, published by Packt Publishing (© 2007) ISBN-13: 978-1847192660
This is a good start for PDO. The examples and methodology used to present the concepts for using PDO were very useful. The book steps you from the basic use of PDO in chapter 2, through error handling and a good [...]
Recently I ran across a blog that really got me going for a short time. It required Java, Javascript, and cookies including 3rd party cookies to view the web page. A friend of mine got suspicous of the site and asked me to look at it. What I discovered was a lot of stupidity and [...]
Ok, I need to rant a bit here to get this off my chest. Sorry if some bricks I throw come your way, you can pick them up and throw them back if you like. In the past week I have worked with two different clients which are still maintaining old PHP code, one that [...]
Most people will find that downloading and installing the “AMP” part of “LAMP” on a Macintosh from either the fine folks at Apache Friends or living-e will result in a great experience. I encourage those who are not comfortable with the command line to use one of them. However, if you are crazy like me, [...]
Well, actually, phpDocumentor in and of itself doesn’t drive me crazy. It is the people writing sloppy code and doing rather stupid things in the name of creating good documentation. PhpDocumentor has some very noble goals and benefits. Providing proper documentation regarding your code is important, especially open source code which is used by lots [...]
I learned C++ in the early 1990s and started my journey on the Object Orient Programming road although for like 15 years, that road was only a block long. Even still, it began a internal battle with myself that was just simmering but now has started to boil over.
