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Consumer Testing Labs: Ensuring Quality Products For The World
I realized the other day that I haven’t really talked about my employer, Consumer Testing Labs, all that much. So, what is it that we do? Let me quote from our web site so I get it correct: “Since...
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Optimizing Page Load Time: Fixing Your HTTP Pipeline Problem
Defined here by Wikipedia.org, “HTTP pipelining is a technique in which multiple HTTP requests are written out to a single socket without waiting for the corresponding responses.” Mozilla talks a bit...
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Google Apps Premier Edition: Is Google Changing The World Again?
So what’s with this new-fangled Google Apps thing? To me, it initially just seemed like a fancy version of Gmail. However, as I really started delving into it, I was thoroughly impressed. Here’s the...
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CakePHP: Sortable AJAX Drag & Drops – The Basics
I spent some time working with a few of the “cool” features of CakePHP this week. I again noted that Cake is a capable PHP framework in ways that aren’t obvious at first glance. In fact, I found...
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CakePHP On IIS Troubleshooting & Help Guide!
If you are interested in using CakePHP on an IIS server, you may have experienced a few problems here and there. Mostly, the problems arise when you are trying to integrate Cake with an existing IIS...
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PHP Security – Ensuring A Safe PHP Setup
One of the inherent flaws with any popular web language like PHP is the serious potential of security vulnerabilities from improperly set up installations and servers. Although ensuring a secure server...
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7 Silly Symptoms Of Computer Addiction
As a web developer I spend a “small” amount of time in front of a computer. It’s to be expected, right? The other day a friend proposed that I spend too much time in front of a computer! Utterly...
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Is PHP better than Perl: CakePHP vs. Perl?
Recently at work, a brief discussion with a co-worker about Perl vs. PHP encouraged me to do some “reading” about the topic. Honestly, I had never really considered that people were still using Perl on...
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The Future of PHP: The Death of a Giant?
If you are a fan of language “X” and think it’s better than PHP, here’s your chance to convince me. After some discussion with colleagues, I’m very interested to find a general consensus as to which...
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Capistrano And PHP: Simplifying PHP Deployments
If you aren’t familiar with Ruby on Rails, there’s a good chance you’ve probably missed the proverbial boat on a powerful tool called Capistrano. Do you ever feel like you’re repeating previous work...
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JQuery: The Best Javascript Library?
After stumbling across this article, I was in awe to see what has recently transpired in the world of Javascript libraries/frameworks. I had recently fell in love with Yahoo UI, but I was truly...
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E4X: Explaining ECMAscript for XML
Right at this very moment, I had a thought cross my mind. If I wanted to use Javascript to modify XML on the fly, how in the heck would I make that happen? I think the answer is E4X, which is short for...
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Type Casting In PHP – What’s the Point?
Did you know that PHP has some pretty powerful type casting functionality built-in? It’s no surprise if you comprehend the roots of PHP (since it’s written in C), but I can’t help but think that...
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Open-Source vs. Home-Brewed PHP CMS
I’ve had a slew of requests lately from clients needing small web sites they can manage themselves (mostly small businesses). Truthfully though, I simply prefer the client to manage their content...
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CakePHP – The Best PHP Framework
It has been a while since I’ve written much about CakePHP (let alone anything on my blog), but I thought I’d update the world with my latest thoughts in case anyone was interested. I’ve come a long way...
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