Zend Certified Engineer

September 21st, 2008

Last week at ZendCon08 I took my ZCE test for PHP5 and passed.  I am now a ZCE!
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Putting Twitter on Your Blog

April 27th, 2008

Today I wanted to put my Twitter feed on my blog but didn’t really want to use a widget since that is for distribution purposes and I was looking for something more permanent. Twitter gives everyone the ability to see their tweets via rss or atom feeds so I choose to use the [...]


Indexing PDF’s - The Why?

January 26th, 2008

After I published my small article on “Indexing PDF Documents with Zend_Search_Lucene” I was surprised to find it on the Zend Developer Zone blog. I had no idea that this would get the attention that it did and I thank everyone for checking it out. So now that you know how you would [...]


Indexing PDF Documents with Zend_Search_Lucene

January 20th, 2008

Part I
I along with many others have been trying and asking how to index and search PDF files. Once Zend released its Framework, which is a port of Java Lucene to PHP, I decided to jump on board and find a way to index and search PDF files. So… Lets get started.
The Setup…
We [...]


SilverStripe Fist Glance

September 14th, 2007

Read/Write has posted a good article about SilverStripe, a new lightweight CMS built on PHP5 and Ajax. I checked out the demo that they had up and it really looks pretty good. I haven’t done an install or looked at the code to change layout, but from what I can see, it looks fairly easily.
They [...]