Editorial:

Recently we had to make an emergency move from our old servers (where we had been for 5-6 years) to our own dedicated server because of technical difficulties in the heads of the nerd’s who managed the servers killersites.com had been sitting on. I will spare you the details of my server migration ordeal for…

In 2006 I created killerphp.com because I wanted to make it easy for web designers to learn PHP. I thought PHP was THE predominate web programming language and I felt every web designer should include PHP as one of their core coding skills: – html – css – php – javascript. Then Ruby came along…

OK, I just tricked you! This article is not going to teach you how to build a content management system with PHP from scratch. Why not? … Because building a content management system from scratch is (probably) a really dumb idea!! Now that I come to think about it, building any of the most commonly…

Hi, I was chatting with my Java buddies recently and they had just discovered an alternative lightweight framework for building Java based web applications – something called Spring. The Spring framework is equivalent to the Zend Framework or Code Igniter. I first learned about Spring before it was called Spring, back in 2002 when the…

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…

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. – So…

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 … – When Ruby on Rails started to gain some momentum a year or so ago, I decided to take another look…

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…

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 –…

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…