Editorial:

I recently had a conversation with a good friend of mine who has his finger on the pulse of the web app developer community – whether it be PHP, Ruby and even .Net. So I asked: Last we spoke, you mentioned that the Zend Framework was in a do or die situation? Can you elaborate…

Hi, I got a pretty good question today, something I may have never talked about before: why did I drop Java? Short answer: Speed. … It is just so much faster to develop in PHP vs Java. Same can be said for Ruby, and in fact, many of those in the Ruby ranks, are disaffected…

Hey, Anyone who has read anything I’ve written (or watched my video blogs,) knows I can’t stand academics. I was particularly vocal against the early 2000’s Web Standards movement’s zealotry, wherein reality was pushed aside in favor of code purity. These nerds would ignore reality – for example: They would ignore how the most popular…

Hi, People ask me from time to time, what PHP framework is the best one to learn? Well, I always look at technology choices with two things in mind: How capable is the technology? How accepted is the technology? If you look around, it becomes pretty clear, that if you want to learn an effective…

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…