Today I was playing around with the Online Commercial Intention tool on Microsoft’s adCenter Labs. Just for fun I typed in a couple PHP content management systems I’ve used to see how they rank and came across some interesting results. If you haven’t used the OCI tool before, it gives you a ranking for how [...]
I was e-mailing a friend the other day talking about PHP frameworks. He’s been writing one for himself and I’ve written many many frameworks and CMSs through the years. I’ve also looked at a lot of existing frameworks out there like Zend, CodeIgniter, CakePHP, Solar, Symfony and I’ve come to a conclusion. There are a [...]
So I’ve been a resident of California for just over three weeks now and things are going well. I have most of my IKEA furniture assembled and most of my boxes unpacked. I’ve been kind of lazy with things lately but that’s OK. PBwiki is really great. Everyone I work with has been super good [...]
At Netconcepts I’ve implemented microformats in order to optimize content for search engines. An example of this would be the hCard microformat which we’re using in the Allen Edmonds store locator. If you view the source of http://www.allenedmonds.com/mens/allen-edmonds-in-brookfield.shtml and look for class=”vcard” you can examine how we’re marking up the content with classes like street-address [...]
I’ve been programming in one form or another for as long as I can remember. Since my family got it’s first computer when I was five I couldn’t have programmed much before that. However I knew DOS well enough to help teachers with their computers in first and second grade so I was probably already [...]
So I am currently looking for good bug tracking software. I have a few requirements, some of which I’m sure are unreasonable. First the code needs to be able to run without errors, warnings or notices in PHP 5.2 (using php.ini-recommended) and it’s an extra bonus if it works under E_STRICT. It should either use [...]
Well, tomorrow is the first meeting of my PHP Users Group. I’m pretty excited about that. Right now I have 9 people RSVPed Yes and 3 RSVPed Maybe. Certainly a larger crowd then I had originally expected. The group is being organized through meetup.com.
I'm Andrew Shell. I'm a PHP developer in Madison, WI. Currently I'm working for Brazen Careerist and occasionally I do freelance work.
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