Well, I’m pleased and extremely excited to tell you that Willowgarden is now online and ready for download. What is Willowgarden? It is a new rapid platform for bringing the next wave of Web applications to life using the power of PHP 5. It gives you the tools you need to design and develop great […]

Only one more day to go until Willowgarden is launched. It’s a project that’s been under development for over eight months and contains concepts I’ve been working on for far longer than that. I had originally planned to release it sometime at the end of April, and last week when I discovered that April 28 […]

Wow, I just found out about this. SketchUp, a cool 3D sketching and modeling tool “for the rest of us” that I played around with at Macworld this January, was recently bought by Google and is now available for free! (There’s still a Pro version for sale though.) Unfortunately, the Mac version isn’t out yet, […]

We’re halfway through the business week here, and Arbor Day is coming up fast! What’s so special about Arbor Day, you ask? Well, it’s a great opportunity to celebrate the beauty and wonder and incredible usefulness of trees — in particular by planting some. It’s also a day when the Willowgarden project will be officially […]

As we roll along towards Arbor Day, April 28, 2006, when all will be revealed, let’s talk about another aspect of PHP application design that Willowgarden will impact dramatically.
Every piece of software can be described and articulated via a set of core concepts. Often, these ways of building software mirror concepts we understand in real-life. […]

As I mentioned earlier this month, I have a series of announcements I’ll be making as this summer rolls on by. The first announcement won’t fully be revealed until Arbor Day, April 28, 2006. In the meantime, this is the first post in a series that will continue until that date, and each post will […]

You may notice the color scheme is slightly different around here. I decided I’d put a bit more contrast and warmth into the design, so it’s now easier to scan (especially on PC monitors with higher gamma). I might try a redesign (or a realign I should say) later on, but for now it tickles […]

Hey folks, if you’re developing Web apps with PHP (4.3+ or 5+) and have been wondering how to take full advantage of all that Ajax has to offer, you owe it to yourself to check out xajax! 0.2.4 started out as a quick big-fix update and ended up containing a few really neat new feature […]

A really interesting group blog (and wiki) just started called PHP Thinktank, and they’re encouraging PHP developers to contribute. So I thought I’d join the fray and offer my 2 cents worth on what makes a good framework. I hope you enjoy it!

Yay! That was pretty easy! I just upgraded The Idea Basket to the latest 2.0.2, finally, so I’ve caught up with the blogging Joneses. In addition, I installed the Ultimate Tag Warrior plugin, so now I’m tagging my posts and have a pretty tag cloud on my sidebar. I’ve tagged some of my recent posts, […]