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PHP Certification

I get asked about this a lot. Why did I take the PHP Certification exam? What does it do for me? Was it hard?

Sounds, IE7 and Security Warnings

Some of you may know that the last few weeks I’ve been writing an AJAX chat application that plugs in to DeskPRO. One of the problems we ran into is playing sound notifications. The problem is that IE7 likes to pop up a security warning when you use the usual <embed> code. This was unacceptable. [...]

symfony Framework

Yesterday I spent 6 or 7 hours working with the symfony framework. After investigating several other frameworks available, like CakePHP and CodeIgniter, I settled down to work with symfony and I’m glad I did. It has a pretty big learning curve, but the free book is an invaluable resource (I’m actually thinking of buying the [...]