Sometimes there are unique situations where you need to order query results by a particular field in descending order, but... View Article
I was fortunate enough to be selected as the regional speaker for the Dallas CodeWorks 2009 stop by the Dallas... View Article
When debugging, I often find that I have to comment and un-comment a block of code several times during the... View Article
Prepared statements differ from normal queries in one major way: Instead of sending one SQL string with the values defined... View Article
The MVC design pattern has been getting a lot of attention in the past few years. It seems like a... View Article
The local Oklahoma City PHP User Group is re-starting with the okcCoCo as the new venue. The new meetings will... View Article
I’ve been a little aggravated lately trying to get jQuery UI Datepicker to work correctly on dynamically added fields for... View Article
InvoiceMore, the startup I have been working on in my spare time for over 7 months, has finally launched. This... View Article
A client of mine called me last night around 8:00pm a little worried. I had recently setup a hosting account... View Article
If you’re in or around the Oklahoma City area doing freelance work, there’s some very good news for you. Derrick... View Article
This is just a quick post on PHP’s default behavior of re-indexing numeric keys when using PHP’s internal array_merge and... View Article
I’m a big fan of Google Analytics. The service is free, can go on multiple websites using just one account,... View Article
So you have a MySQL table that, somehow or another (usually on many-to-many relation tables), winds up having rows with... View Article
I stumbled across yet another weird issue in Internet Explorer 6 today. This time it has to do with <button... View Article
PHP DataMapper is an open-source project I’ve been building and working on for a little while now. It’s a lightweight... View Article
If you’re in or around the Oklahoma City, Oklahoma area, you need to schedule some time for the upcoming OpenBeta... View Article
I am currently working on my own little app as a side project (who isn’t these days?), and I have... View Article
Benchmarking and performance concerns should be one of the last things you address while building your application, but it seems... View Article
Well Tulsa TechFest is over, and it was a pretty good conference overall. Here are the slides of my presentations... View Article
Just thought I’d post a quick HOW-TO article on how to get the contents of a FeedBurner feed with PHP,... View Article
After anxiously awaiting a response from David Walker, the TulsaTechFest conference Director about an open speaking spot, I just about... View Article
The famous “one item per day” e-commerce store Woot! periodically holds a “woot-off”, where multiple different items are sold in... View Article
For some reason, Internet Explorer 7 does some pretty funky things, and has several known bugs with it’s rendering engine... View Article
Last week while listing to the TechCrunch50 conference live broadcast, I noticed an interesting trend that seemed to concern VC’s... View Article
After a long time sitting on the sidelines of the whole blogging/social media trend, I finally decided to jump in... View Article