Web Development

Free PHP Book

It's probably not new to everyone, but I just found an excellent PHP book posted online as a WIKI: Practical PHP Programming It's a great reference book on PHP, covers PHP5 and is formatted well. It's supported by a few Google Ads.

By |August 7th, 2007|Programming, Web Development|Comments Off on Free PHP Book

PHP 4 end of life announcement

PHP.net has announced that they will not release any updates to PHP 4 after 12/31/2007. They will stop issuing critical security patches after 8/8/2008. This will finally force hosting companies into supporting PHP5. It only took 3 years and the upcoming release of PHP 6 to do it!

By |July 15th, 2007|Web Development|Comments Off on PHP 4 end of life announcement

Career and Life Changes

I've recently sold my web development business, EleyTech, and have joined the acquiring firm. I am now an account manager, consultant and web developer at Brant Kelsey Design. It's an exciting and interesting story. A few months ago, I came across a help-wanted ad on a competitor's website. I have thoroughly enjoyed owning a small [...]

New Office

Well, I've finally made the leap and leased an office for my business. The new office is in a shared office building with a few other businesses but it's very quiet overall. The office space is pretty large and I will have plenty of room (much more than I do now). There is even enough [...]