Packt Publishing announced the winners for their annual Open Source CMS Award in November, and since then I have been a bit disturbed that the 2009 winner was WordPress. My first reaction was this: “… So a blogging platform won the content management system award? How sad is that?” My knee-jerk “how sad is that?” [...]
CodeWorks 2009 Dallas
I was fortunate enough to be selected as the regional speaker for the Dallas CodeWorks 2009 stop by the Dallas PHP User Group through a community voting and selection process. My talk was entitled Object Oriented Apologetics, and was essentially about letting people know what good object-oriented code is, when to use it, how to [...]
The One Character Block Comment
When debugging, I often find that I have to comment and un-comment a block of code several times during the process of trying to find out what’s going on. That used to mean typing and deleting comment block characters repetitively, but not anymore. Here’s a simple solution to that problem: Comment or un-comment an entire [...]
