PHP DataMapper is an open-source project I’ve been building and working on for a little while now. It’s a lightweight Object-Relational Mapper based on the Data Mapper design pattern, setup using one mapper per table. The primary goal is to make database access one of the easiest parts of building your application instead of the [...]
In Oklahoma? Come to The OpenBeta “Unconference”
If you’re in or around the Oklahoma City, Oklahoma area, you need to schedule some time for the upcoming OpenBeta “Unconference”. From the event website: OpenBeta is an un-conference — a participant-driven community event aimed at exposing ideas and creating opportunities by connecting smart, passionate and motivated people with different expertises. The event will be [...]
37signals Was Right – Do it Yourself First
I am currently working on my own little app as a side project (who isn’t these days?), and I have determined that I’m close enough to launch that I needed to start generating a little buzz and getting at least a few interested people to signup for a limited closed beta test before it launches. [...]
Early Performance Benchmarking is a Disease
Benchmarking and performance concerns should be one of the last things you address while building your application, but it seems as though, in the PHP community especially, it’s often one of the first things novice developers think about. Any PHP developer who’s been in the community for a while has heard preposterous claims like “use [...]
Presentation Slides From Tulsa TechFest 2008
Well Tulsa TechFest is over, and it was a pretty good conference overall. Here are the slides of my presentations at the conference for those who are interested. I have voice recordings of both my presentations too, but unfortunately the digital recorder I bought has no way of directly accessing the files stored in memory [...]
Reading a FeedBurner Feed with PHP and cURL
Just thought I’d post a quick HOW-TO article on how to get the contents of a FeedBurner feed with PHP, because it’s something I was attempting to do last night that really annoyed me. Since I started this blog here, I decided to narrow another website of mine – czaries.net – to just distribute some [...]
