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This morning, Matthew writes about building RESTful services with the Zend Framework. I have a lot of thoughts on his post, and I might blog more about it later, but right now, I want to focus on David’s comment: I think the next thing you should cover is how to retrieve put parameters and maybe even [...]

Several months ago, I started the process of embedding PHP into the Titanium platform. After several sprints of work, the Appcelerator team was finally ready to merge my work into their master branch, and Martin Robinson worked to bring the implementation to maturity. The current release of Titanium Developer does not yet have the PHP [...]

Departing Miami, I gazed upon the Atlantic Ocean as we cut through the clouds, making our way farther from the shore, and the thought occurred to me that this tour—these two weeks—has taken me from sea to shining sea across this great country. What a fitting thought to have as this next leg of the [...]

Miami CodeWorks, so far, was the smallest conference but I still think some important connections were made, especially with regard to user group contacts. At the Microsoft happy hour on the second day of the conference in Miami, I was able to meet Brendon Van Heyzen, who is interested in starting up a PHP user [...]

Atlanta was the mid-point stop on the CodeWorks tour, and since it’s my home, I decided to use it as an opportunity to spend time with my family before heading off on the second half of the tour. As such, there was very little hallway track activity for me, but I did get a chance [...]

Yesterday, the CodeWorks B-Team (the session day team, a.k.a. Team Awesome) ran into a bit of a travel snafu that actually worked out better for us. On the way to the airport in Los Angeles, we got stuck in traffic caused by an overturned cement mixer truck. And by overturned, I literally mean the cement [...]

I’m writing this from Los Angeles during the session (or conference) day of CodeWorks. The “A Team” (tutorial team) is en route to Dallas today, while the “B Team” (session team) gives their talks. Our flight yesterday was short, but we didn’t arrive at the hotel until nearly 4pm, and then I had to leave soon [...]

I’m breaking a long and terrible habit of not blogging in order to share my experiences at CodeWorks over the next two weeks. As you may know, CodeWorks is a touring PHP conference that is traveling to seven cities. I’m privileged to be speaking in each of the cities. My trip to San Francisco began on [...]

Another php|tek come and gone. I’m saddened by leaving, but, as usually happens, I’m reinvigorated and reenergized to go back to work. It seems I need these events to get together with other developers to raise me up out of periods of burn-out. I’m sure the same goes for others. I gave my talk this morning [...]

As a Twitter user (@ramsey) with over 700 followers, a good followers-to-following ratio (4 followers for every 1 I’m following), and over 4600 updates, I think I have a valuable perspective on the use of Twitter. I throw these numbers out there not to brag, and I’ll be quick to point out that this is [...]

A couple of months ago, an e-mail thread went around the company discussing “Web 3.0” technology. Naturally, I felt the need to put in my two cents, and I thought it would make for a good blog post. Let me know what you think. Do you agree? Disagree? Marketing speak aside, I like to think of [...]

It looks like there’s a lot of momentum behind rev=”canonical” now—and all built up within the span of about forty-eight hours. So, while I disagree with the use of “canonical” for semantic reasons and rev for the potential of mass misunderstanding and improper implementation, I think I’ll bite the bullet on this one for now, [...]

I think my central argument against rev=”canonical” in my previous post was lost due to the fact that my post was so long. So, I’ll try to summarize my points in a very concise way. Let’s get away from the argument about rev not being in HTML 5. That’s not the point. If a case can [...]

There’s a lot being said about rev=”canonical”. Others have already explained what it is and stated the arguments for it, so I won’t go into all of that, but I would like to offer a rebuttal—to play devil’s advocate, so to speak—in hopes that we’ll all slow down and think about what we’re doing before [...]

Via Joe Gregorio, it looks like OAuth is setting up a working group with the IETF. Currently, those on the mailing list are working to draft the IETF working group charter, which states: The Working Group will produce one or more documents suitable for consideration as Proposed Standard, based upon draft-hammer-oauth-00.txt, that will:Improve the terminology used.Embody [...]