Archive for May, 2008

Ruby on Rails - a paper dragon?

Sunday, May 25th, 2008

Hi,
I was going to start this off with some analogy on how Ruby is like dating some ‘hottie’ that turns out to be crazy .. but I just couldn’t make it work …
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When Ruby on Rails started to gain some momentum a year or so ago, I decided to take another look at the [...]

Angry self righteous tech-nerds

Thursday, May 22nd, 2008

I’ve been involved in the tech business for many years. Though technology is constantly changing, there is a constant:
Angry self righteous tech-nerds.
Who are the angry-nerds?
Angry-nerds are those programmers, network administrators or any other geeks that have a major chip on their shoulders.
Typically, they are in their twenties, with little experience, and are [...]

Why build all your web pages in PHP?

Thursday, May 15th, 2008

I recently had this question put to me by a web designer who was considering the idea of using PHP pages in her websites:
“Why build all your pages in PHP … Why not use standard .html pages?”
She then expanded the question to:
“What I mean is…… what’s the benefit to building ALL sites in PHP?”
Note to [...]

Aprenda Programacion Orientada a Objetos en PHP

Monday, May 12th, 2008

Hi,
I’ve released my tutorial on Object Oriented PHP in Spanish.

You can download the PDF:
Aprenda Programacion Orientada a Objetos en PHP.pdf
Many thanks to Javier W. Barbieri from Iquitos Peru.
PS: I have new PHP tutorials coming out soon.
Stefan Mischook
www.killerphp.com