Category Archives: PHP

Zend/PHP Conference 06 – First Remarks

Well, I’ve been at the Zend/PHP conference in San Jose, CA since Sunday. The tutorials began on Monday, and with the beginning, I recognized a HUGE diversity gap. There were plenty of Americans, Canadians and Britans who were speaking English, … Continue reading

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Zend PHP Certification

Well, yesterday was the dreaded changed day for my Zend PHP certification, and I could put in no more study time for it – I had already spent several days taking training courses, then several days reviewing the materials taught … Continue reading

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IP Address Regular Expression

This regex command I determined and figure I would share with everyone trying to verify the authenticity of an IP address. ^([0-9]{1,3}\.){3}[0-9]{1,3}$ If you have a better regex, certainly entertain me. I’m always willing to listen. This came about as … Continue reading

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OSCON Day 3

Day 3 ended the tutorials and began the sessions – the events that the majority of people showed up for. Keystones also precluded the days events, and the first Keynotes were rather intriguing. I heard talks from one of the … Continue reading

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OSCON – Day 2

Day 2 of OSCON training was rather sluggish and disappointing. There were several things that I found out that I already knew, but many things I wasn’t expecting from one of the talks, the High Performance PHP. Going into this, … Continue reading

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OSCON – Training Day 1

Today: Ruby and Rails Verdict: Better than awesome! First thoughts: Instructor name’s David Thomas. First thing on my mind: Wendy’s. lol, sorry, had to get that off my mind. Anywho, David Thomas and Mike Clark were the instructors for The … Continue reading

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Here at OSCON

Well, I am officially writing on the WIFI here at OSCON. After a long, approximate 9 hours of flight, waiting, more flight, waiting, a prezel, and more flying, both myself and Melissa made it here to Portland. I don’t thing … Continue reading

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Prepping for OSCON

Well, in just over a week I’ll be going to Portland, Oregon to attend my very first OSCON. My boss usually goes, and since I got staff at CIS too late last year, I didn’t have a chance to go … Continue reading

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PHP Logging Fixes

I encountered a problem with an application I was working on the other day that was running on a machine with an older version of PHP (version 4.2.3 I believe). Essentially, the problem was with trying to set the PHP … Continue reading

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