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Comment on PHPUnit Presentation - June 5, 2008 by Automated Testing Patterns and Smells | Suburban Chicago PHP

Automated Testing Patterns and Smells | Suburban Chicago PHP — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 13:06:58 +0000

[...] you decide to do automated unit testing of your web applications, this presentation from Google Tech Talks covers ways to make your tests [...]

Comment on Dan’s Ruby XML Presentation by Rita

Rita — Mon, 19 May 2008 21:38:48 +0000

Hi Dave,

Currently I am working on a project that entails the use of two PHP Developers. These developers must have both front and back end experience. The PHP Developers must also have extensive experience bldg complex PHP based applications and are up to the challenge of creating an all PHP based architecture. Hope you can help.

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Comment on Electronics Recycling at MacSpecialist by Electronics » Blog Archive » Electronics Recycling at MacSpecialist

Electronics » Blog Archive » Electronics Recycling at MacSpecialist — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 14:28:22 +0000

[...] dave wrote an interesting post today on Electronics Recycling at MacSpecialistHere’s a quick excerptIf driving to West Chicago this Saturday isn’t your cup of tea, MacSpecialist in Villa Park is hosting a big electronics recycling event as well. Drop off some old computers or monitors, pick up a coupon on some Mac gear, … [...]

Comment on March PHP Meetup by March PHP Meetup

March PHP Meetup — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 06:55:06 +0000

[...] unknown wrote an interesting post today onHere’s a quick excerpt The next PHP Meetup will be March 6th at 7:00pm. This month, Christian will be giving a presentation on mod_rewrite. That’s the Apache module that makes “friendly” URLs possible. We’ll be meeting at the “other” Panera, off Butterfield Rd. It’s at 25 Rice Lake Square in Wheaton. See you there! [...]

Comment on Massive SQL injection attack by csixty4.com » Blog Archive » Catching Up

csixty4.com » Blog Archive » Catching Up — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 06:48:24 +0000

[...] Over at suburbanchicagophp.org, I offered up a way to prevent SQL injection attacks. [...]

Comment on Drupal in the Western Suburbs by Andres

Andres — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 02:26:19 +0000

I am not sure I can make the event but I am interested in collaborating with other designers and devs in the North West Suburbs. What groups out there can you recommend?

Comment on Drupal in the Western Suburbs by Dave Ross

Dave Ross — Sun, 16 Dec 2007 17:27:29 +0000

I forwarded your email about this to everyone at work. I don’t know if anyone will be attending, but there was some interest in seeing how a proper Drupal site works.

Comment on Dave’s (Poignant) Guide to PHP by bsnodgrass

bsnodgrass — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 10:12:32 +0000

In the real estate industry it’s all about location, location, location.

In the computer industry it’s all about adoption, adoption, adoption.

PHP is big and will continue to be, but let’s face it new technologies always rise up over time on the adoption scale. The cool thing about it all is how well other technologies can be combined in the internet world without necessarily rendering a well adopted tool useless.

Comment on Dave’s (Poignant) Guide to PHP by Joel

Joel — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 02:50:06 +0000

PHP doesn’t have a _why mostly because it’s never needed one. Unlike with Ruby (and a lot of other languages), no one has ever said, “Gee, I’d like to learn PHP, but I just can’t find any decent documentation.”

You can learn pretty much everything you need to know about PHP — and easily, too — without ever leaving php.net. The same is not true for many other languages.

I also don’t think being “too corporate” is something most people care about. It never stopped anyone from using VB or C#.

Comment on Dave’s (Poignant) Guide to PHP by dave

dave — Sun, 02 Dec 2007 23:58:06 +0000

You aren’t too far off there. PHP 5 came out back in 2004 and it’s just getting adopted on a large scale because the folks behind PHP finally said “enough”. There are a lot of people out there who understand how to write procedural PHP 4 code and don’t want to learn anything new. PHP 5, with its exceptions and public/private variables, is too complicated for some of them.

PHP got to be where it is because it’s easy to learn. This is the niche PHP seems destined to fill. It’s a shame, though, because it could be so much more. I have to wonder if PHP 6 will ever make it out the gate, or if it’ll face too much resistance.