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Author: Andrew Shell

PHP Frameworks are Governments

I was e-mailing a friend the other day talking about PHP frameworks. He's been writing one for himself and I've written many many frameworks and CMSs through the years. I've also looked at a lot of existing frameworks out there like Zend, CodeIgniter, CakePHP, Solar, Symfony and...

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Yahoo and the semantic web

At Netconcepts I've implemented microformats in order to optimize content for search engines. An example of this would be the hCard microformat which we're using in the Allen Edmonds store locator. We marked up the content with classes like street-address and region. We're...

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PHP Works 2006

The conference this year was a lot of fun. I found the talks to be weaker then I remember from previous years. Perhaps I chose poorly. Two of the best talks I attended were "The State of AOP in PHP" by Sebastian Bergmann and "Organizing Your Projects" by Paul...

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PHP/DB | Works 2006

I just arrived in Toronto yesterday for the third PHP Works conference I've attended. The last two years were incredible and I have no doubts that this year will be great as well. I will try to post several entries while I'm here detailing what talks I've attended and such....

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First PHP Meetup

Well, tomorrow is the first meeting of my PHP Users Group. I'm pretty excited about that. Right now I have 9 people RSVPed Yes and 3 RSVPed Maybe. Certainly a larger crowd then I had originally expected. The group is being organized through meetup.com.

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