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Seven Things – Tagged by Joe LeBlanc

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So this Seven things chain has been going around the web lately and I have finally been tagged. I was tagged by the Joomla! god who keeps all those planes in the air with his sophisticated software algorithms.

Seven things about me you may or may not know;

  1. I used to swim competitively – I swam competitively for about 13 or 14 years. YMCA swim team (Auburn Stingrays), 4yrs of High School (Auburn High School), and 1 yr of College (SUNY Morrisville). I was a distance swimmer. I once was ranked 18th in Section III (NYS) in the 500 freestyle (20 laps). Our High school team was ranked in the top 5 in New York State. My freshmen year we where ranked 1st.
  2. I am/was a Band Geek – I did high school marking band for 5 years (Maroon Vanguard) and 2 years of Drum Corps (Junior Corps DCI Rochester Patriots).
  3. I hate watching fake TV, I prefer documentaries or non-fiction stories – Really I love discovery channel and the science channel or TLC.  Anything that’s real.  “How They Do That”, “Dirty Jobs”, and reality TV are my favorites.
  4. I am the only one in DC that voted for John McCain – Something like 93% of DC voted for Barack Obama. I guess they will see they were wrong sooner or later :-)
  5. I didn’t understand Object Oriented Programing (OOP) until my first job – It’s true! I understand it now though!
  6. I wear a suit to work everyday and I am a PHP Developer - Don’t you? I work at the Library of Congress. It looks more professional and people take me more serious. I did a little unprofessional study by myself and now i will wear a suit or tie to work everyday including Friday’s.  No JEANS ever!
  7. I grew up in Auburn, New York.  Home of the electric chair, Harriet Tubman, William Seward – dude he purchased Alaska home of Sarah Palin, Theodore Case – he put sound to video a thing now called movies, and many more. Oh yea, Auburn also has some of the only original Tiffany glass left in the world.

I guess that’s it.  Now it’s time to tag 7 more people.  Here they are,

  1. Jill Spaeth – College Roommate at Rochester Institute of Technology (@innerspaeth)
  2. Justin Thorp – Keith already tagged him but he lives two doors down so I can bug him to get it done. (@thorpus)
  3. Wes – My favorite bud in Florida.  I worked with him at SONY.  You all know how much I hate Florida but I love my Wes. (@theonlyub)
  4. John Croston – if you are a geek in DC you know him! (@jfcIII)
  5. Andrew Wirtanen – My liberal friend from RIT. (@awirtanen)
  6. Antoine Butler – Simple just a Rock Star. (@aebsr)
  7. I’m going out on a limb and going to pick a the smartest business guy on the web – Jason Calacanis (@JasonCalacanis)

The rules:
1. Link your original tagger(s), and list these rules on your blog.
2. Share seven facts about yourself in the post – some random, some weird.
3. Tag seven people at the end of your post by leaving their names and the links to their blogs.
4. Let them know they’ve been tagged by leaving a comment on their blogs and/or Twitter.

Review: Zend Framework: Surviving The Deep End, Chapters 1 & 2

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If you are looking for a Zend Framework (ZF) book and don’t want to spend money then you should check out this new free ZF book called “Zend Framework: Surviving the Deep End” by Pádraic Brady. The book is free distributed in PDF and HTML formats under creative commons at http://www.survivethedeepend.com/. As of today there are only two chapters, the Introduction and The Architecture of Zend Framework Applications.

Chapter one is pretty much an overview of frameworks including Zend Framework and 13 bullet points why you should consider Zend Framework. Very informative and the bullets get right to the point. Some minor tweaking and this chapter could possibly be a pretty good white paper for customers thinking about deploying ZF.

Chapter two get down to the nitty-gritty of frameworks and a little bit of history behind design patterns. A topic that can be very confusing and controversial between developers. Chapter two ends with a quick overview of the Model-View-Controller design pattern in which ZF uses.

Overall the two chapters were very informative.  I am looking forward to the rest of the chapters, including the full chapter about Models in MVC and some in depth ZF Code.  I suggest if you are looking to learn more about Zend Framework you add this to your list of bookmarks as it will be growing regularly.

2009 New Year’s Resolutions

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Here are my New Year’s resolutions for 2009 in no particular order. I really do hope to meet about 90% of them.

  1. Lose 30lbs.  Really kind of cheesy. This is probably on top of everyone’s list.
  2. Become a better software developer.
  3. Read at least 5-10 books. I probably finish 1-2 a year.
  4. Attend 1-2 PHP Conferences. ZendCon09 and something else.
  5. Write some more PHP tutorials and PHP blog posts.
  6. Become more involved in the PHP Community. This is my biggest one that I hope to achieve.

ZendCon08 Slides – September 15th (Tutorials)

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Here are the slides and talks from ZendCon08 for September 15th (Pre-Conf Tutorials).

If your session is listed but has no link to your slides feel free to send me an email at ZendCon08Slides@kapustabrothers.com.

Tuesday’s are here, Wednesday’s are here, and Thursdays are here.

  • PHP Developer Best Practices (SlideShare) – Matthew Weier O’Phinney &Mike Naberezny
  • Introduction to Object Oriented PHP – Marcus Börger
  • PHP Security Crash Course – Part 1 – Kevin Schroeder
  • Zend PHP5 Certification Crash Course – Part 1 – Christian Wenz

ZendCon08 Slides – September 18th

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Here are the slides and talks from ZendCon08 for September 18th.

If your session is listed but has no link to your slides feel free to send me an email at ZendCon08Slides@kapustabrothers.com.

Monday’s are Here, Tuesday’s are here and Wednesday’s are here.

Thursday, September 18th

KEYNOTE: Closing KeyNote with American Cancer Society (SlideShare) – David J. Neff