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I will be presenting at the Dallas TechFest 2010 Conference

Saturday, June 19th, 2010

I will be presenting a session titled “You can have it all! Zend Framework introduced into your current code” at the Dallas TechFest 2010 Conference. The synopsis of the session is:

Have you been reviewing all Zend Framework has to offer but aren’t sure how to integrate it with your existing code? How can you begin taking advantage of Zend Framework without having to fully adopt the MVC architecture? What do you do when you later want to being using MVC? Hint: You don’t have to throw away any of your code! This session will present ideas and examples on how you can integrate Zend Framework alongside your existing code base with minimal need for future re-factoring.

See all the details on the Presentations page.

UPDATE (17 Aug 2010): Video and code examples have been added to the Presentations page.

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Zend Framework: Using Zend_Tool to Establish Your Project’s Skeleton

Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010

I recently had the opportunity to give a presentation to the DFW Lamp User Group on Zend_Tool and how to use it to establish your project’s skeleton. The presentation began by going into a very brief overview of Zend Framework itself, the basic structure of a Zend Framework application, and Zend_Tool’s place in it all. I covered each of the components that make up the Zend_Tool ecosystem as well as how to install and use it on both Windows and *nix platforms. Towards the end of the presentation I covered how to write your own custom providers and manifests and presented several ideas on where this newly-acquired knowledge could take you.

I have made the slides and corresponding code examples available for viewing and download on the Presentations page, as well as I recorded the presentation for you to be able to view as well.

I hope this information is useful, and happy coding!

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I have a blog – so now what?

Thursday, October 29th, 2009

This is my first blog post.

It’s amazing how long it took to write just these six words. I do not mean that it took me an extended amount of time to literally write these six words, but instead am referring to the amount of time it has taken for me to begin blogging. I first gave consideration to the idea of blogging approximately a year-and-a-half ago. Then before I knew it almost that entire time period had passed me by without so much as a single sentence typed. After attending the Dallas, TX stop of the CodeWorks 2009 tour on September 26 and 27, and meeting a venerable list of PHP’s who’s-who, I was once again inspired to begin blogging. (more…)

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