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I’ve been coding in PHP off and on for years now.  Each project I’ve done thus far has always been by hand.  Doing the architecture of your site by hand is the easiest way to introduce bugs and end up with sloppy code.   For the first time I’ve started a project where I used a [...]

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Since moving to Camarillo for college in August, I missed both SHDH20 and SHDH21 due to the increased distance between the Bay Area and where I live. However, since I’m back in San Luis Obispo for winter break, I was able to attend SHDH22. Instead of spending my time socializing and learning, I [...]

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I’m sure like most people, I started learning Rails by reading about….Rails. It would seem logical to learn Rails by reading about Rails, right? I think a better way of learning about Rails is to first master Ruby and THEN learn the Rails framework for Ruby. This approach has helped me debug [...]

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I had some free time today, so I decided to start on a proof-of-concept for my OpenID + Microformats idea. Holy $^#@ am I rusty with PHP. It’s now been about a year since I last done any sort of programming with it and I find myself having to reference the books I [...]

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UPDATE: After an email discussion with Adam Darowski, I revised this post to make it a bit more user-friendly.
I think I might be going about this idea of consolidating your online identity with the OpenID simple registration extension and microformats wrong. I found this microformat library for PHP; It works by by retrieving [...]

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This past weekend I experienced my first Super Happy Dev-House convention/get together. I must say that never before have I met so many people that put me to shame. With this said however, I have learned more about online technologies from this than I have from any online tutorial or book. [...]

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