PHP

• Gentle Introduction to Symfony 1.4
• Event Driven Programming

Frontend

• CSS3 - Connecting the dots

Frontend:

• Filling in the Gaps (HTML5)
• RGBa Browser Support

PHP:

• PHP Serialization or JSON

Business:

• There is no such thing as a bad client

Well this is the first of my daily (weekdays) “link dumps”.  Essentially these are articles I read/mark to read.  I’m posting it to mainly keep track of all these great articles and to share with others.  The link juice should also help these authors, which never hurts.  Feel free to post links to articles I miss in the comments.

Design/Frontend

• Website Archives Best Practice

PHP

• HTTP POST without cURL
• Writing an OAuth Provider
• Mockery: From mock objects to test spies
• Revisit: Why every developer should develop their own framework
• Practical PHP Patterns: Identity Map

Python

• Top 10 Django Troubles for Beginners

I know it’s been a while since my last post, but things at getlegal.com have been quite busy and I changed servers

On to the news.  I will be speaking at confoo.ca in Montreal about Browser Compatibility, titled/inspired by my blog post “Drawing the Line with Browser Compatibility”.  I’m very excited about the opportunity to speak about my career/passion, Web Development.  I recently gave a presentation to the Dallas PHP User Group, “Doctrine Overview”.  I think it went well and was also a good learning experience.
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I was really upset that I didn’t have the funds to attend PHP|Tek in Chicago this year, but I still have hope for PHP|Works!  I’ve been following the conference ever since speakers started to float in this past Monday.  I have to say the community as whole did a great job bringing/sharing the experience online with the rest of the people who weren’t able to attend. Read the rest of this entry »