I was researching things ‘nerd’ on the Web today, and I found myself at the CodeIgniter website.
For those of you who may not know, CodeIgniter is an MVC PHP framework.
What is an MVC framework?
I won’t go into details here since we’ve covered MVC basics elsewhere. Let me just say though, that an MVC framework [...]

I know I will probably get blasted/flamed for this post … but that’s the life of a nerd with an opinion.
So does WP 2.5.1 suck? I’m not sure!

UPDATE:
I have since discovered new information and have resolved the problem … kind of. You can find details in the comments below.
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So what’s the problem with [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

One of the most frustrating aspects of being a web application developer (a Web nerd) is found in the dynamics of dealing with clients.

I’ve been known to say: “I love everything about programming … except for the clients!”
This aspect of the web business (managing clients,) falls under the umbrella of project management - something [...]

Part of PHP’s power is actually found in the variety of open source (free to use) PHP based applications. I’m talking about things like blogs, web frameworks, forums, cms’ etc …
… I was just thinking, that a list of ‘killer’ PHP open source projects would be useful … for a few reasons:

Once upon a time, [...]

I just got back from a trip to Thailand, so I should be back creating new videos and articles on PHP. In the meantime, I have a few Wordpress videos that might interest some of you.
About the videos:
I cover just the basics in the videos I have up now, but I am working on new [...]

The article’s title (I admit,) will get some people little miffed at me. But, what can I say, the truth hurts!
Seriously, this statement is valid and is worth talking about because there are a lot of web designers out there who are considering the leap into building dynamic (database driven) web applications. And with so [...]

Hi,
This is a touch off topic but I thought that some PHP’ers out there might be interested nonetheless.
Preamble:
I got my first Mac about 8-9 months ago and I have to say after having used Windows (all flavors) since 1994, I have to admit that OSX is the best operating system I ever used. Yes, even [...]

In my beginners php videos, I recommended XAMPP as the way to easily install Apache, PHP, MySQL on a MAC.
Well, I just discovered something called MAMP at:
http://www.mamp.info/en/index.php
This nifty little application allows you to (really easily) install Apache, PHP and MySQL. You are provided with a standard DMG file that you simply drag to your [...]

Preamble
I have written this article to speak to business owners and other non-nerd types. So you will not see me go into nerd-details regarding my arguments.
Instead, I concentrate on the business arguments and only touch on the technological issues underlying them … when it makes sense to mention the nerd stuff.
Introduction
I’ve already [...]

One of the two main reasons I put up Killerphp.com is that I believe every web designer should learn PHP. It is a position that (as far as I know) is unique on the Web - no other web-nerds have mentioned it so far.
I suppose I could go on and write about why I believe [...]

Hi,
I wanted to mention that I have a new PHP article out in the Oct issue (#124) of Web Designer Magazine.

Article Title:
‘Learn to build a php contact form while learning to process forms and send email with php.’
I’ve also released Quicktime versions of the PHP video tutorials - they come with the magazine’s DVD.
Thanks,
Stefan [...]

I been away from making videos for about a week now because of a surprize root canal. This ultra-painful experience (I actually lost 10 lbs!) has prevented me from doing any video work (any work at all,) for last little while.
Let that be a lesson to you all:

If you grind your teeth in your [...]

I’ve received many emails over the last few years, with complaints of how confusing PHP seemed … of how hard the documentation on the web seemed to be.
So I created killerphp.com to help those web designers who seemed to be more inclined to design and not to code.
THE WEBSITE LAUNCHED
I put up the first [...]