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2008-01-19 00:00:00 — Without background in programming languages or computer science in general, it's possible that typing systems are not something that have crossed your mind.
2008-03-14 00:00:00 — Recently at work, I was tasked with finding a method to retrieve data from a third-party SQL Server 2000-based system into our own MySQL-based application.
2008-06-04 00:00:00 — A feature of Zend Framework that isn't currently very well documented is output filters.
2008-07-12 00:00:00 — When I first began working with `Zend_View` on a project at work, I noticed that the URL view helper was a bit of a pain to use.
2008-11-23 00:00:00 — One of the interesting bits of research that I've done for my book is benchmarking various mainstream PHP HTTP clients.
2009-04-25 00:00:00 — I successfully built PHP 5.3.0RC1 with PHP-GTK including Cairo support on Ubuntu Jaunty.
2010-01-04 00:00:00 — I recently made a contribution to the PHPUnit project that I thought I'd take a blog post to discuss.
2010-01-22 00:00:00 — A recent work project required me to write a PHP script to interact with a remote SOAP service. The service provider recommended using wsdl2php.
2010-05-20 00:00:00 — The SPL, or Standard PHP Library, is an often overlooked extension in the PHP core.
2010-08-19 00:00:00 — I was recently writing a unit test for an autoloader when I came across a somewhat unintuitive behavior in PHPUnit.
2012-02-13 00:00:00 — I'm working on a project that involves running Drupal on Amazon EC2. To save time in setting up future VM instances, I took the opportunity to learn puppet.
2012-02-13 00:00:00 — To pretty up source code examples in my posts, I use the excellent SyntaxHighlighter Evolved WordPress plugin. The WordPress theme I use conflicts with it.
2014-02-08 00:00:00 — Due to uncertainties in my work schedule, I decided this year not to submit to the Sunshine PHP 2014 conference. However, it turned out I was able to attend.
2014-03-26 00:00:00 — I'd heard recently about a new project recently via Twitter called virtPHP that purported to be PHP's answer to virtualenv for Python or rvm for Ruby.
2014-05-09 00:00:00 — Recently, I was looking into ways to speed up the runtime of the test suite at Blopboard...
2015-10-13 00:00:00 — I ran into an issue recently while trying to run PHPUnit tests in an environment using XHProf.
2017-05-13 00:00:00 — For a while, I've been considering moving to a static site generator for easier maintainability. Ultimately, I made the decision to roll my own solution...
2017-06-25 00:00:00 — There's a frequent oversight I see in code I read when an exception is caught and an exception of a different class is thrown as a result.
2017-09-15 00:00:00 — A "gotcha" I ran into when trying to log an exception with Monolog, why it happened, and how I resolved it.
2020-04-06 00:00:00 — I came across a post entitled "How To Monitor a Forum for Keywords Using Python and AWS Lambda" and thought, "How difficult would it be to do this in PHP?"
2021-01-14 00:00:00 — Nearly four years ago, the current incarnation of this site came to be. Since then, as they're wont to do, my needs and wants have changed...
2021-04-29 00:00:00 — If you read my last post, you know I've been on the hunt for new solutions to power my web site. I found what I was looking for.
2021-05-09 00:00:00 — After I launched the new look for this blog, I noticed something interesting about my traffic.
2021-05-14 00:00:00 — Anyone who's known me a while knows that I'm not really happy with the status quo when it comes to accessibility of personal financial information.
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