I know that a lot has been written about PHP frameworks. Now I’m going to throw in my two cents. About a year ago I went though the exercise of selecting a PHP framework for a large internal infrastructure management application I was architecting at a Fortune 100 IT company. At that [...]
Over the last several days I have been working on a new navigation system for a web site I’m architecting. I want to let the user change the navigation colors in a very basic way, much like MSN.com. While I was struggling to come up with color combinations, I was doing some additional [...]
Here are some books that were recommended in some of the better presentations I attended.
High Performance MySQL
Wikinomics
Good to Great
Don’t Make Me Think
Waiting for Your Cat to Bark?
I would have to agree that cultivating a niche user community from the beginning is a key to future advertising success. As we all know young males are the advertiser’s dream. But what many people forget about is the highly educated $125K+ income crowd. Advertisers kill for people with this type of [...]
Having been at a large technology company, I have worked with massive VMWare infrastructure set ups. For internal applications it is not uncommon to also have production inside a VM at large companies. It really does save on development costs. Imagine shared dev boxes for functional teams working on a large projects. Instead of having [...]
As many of you are aware the Web 2.0 Expo was just held in San Francisco. This was one of the best conferences I have attended in years. Not only did the presentations and speakers offer a wealth of info, but I was also able to meet a lot of very interesting [...]