by Kevin Schroeder | 12:00 am

I need 10 reviewers for my album

Big news for me today. Yesterday I uploaded my album to CD Baby, which will be sending it off to iTunes, Rhapsody, etc.

But, I have a problem. I know what I like about it, but that’s just me. I don’t expect that I will get rich, or famous off of this album. And, honestly, I don’t want to be famous. Rich, on the other hand… 🙂 But what I really need is people to give their perspectives on it so I can a) quote them on it, and b) properly position in for others. The way I describe it isn’t so much what it is, but what it isn’t. It isn’t rock. It isn’t dance. It isn’t orchestra. But it has elements of each in it.

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by Kevin Schroeder | 12:00 am

Top 25 Bad Book Titles

I’m sitting here waiting for a half terabyte drive to format on Vista (apparently quick format should be “quick” format). So I’m trying to figure out what to do. It’s towards the end of the day and there’s not much my brain could do right now that would be worth starting. Yesterday, there was a trend on Twitter about “boring movies”. So, why not do something on boring/useless/pointless/wrong book titles?

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by Kevin Schroeder | 12:00 am

How chickens and programming are kind of related

I believe that everyone should work on a working farm for at least a month. There are a few reasons for that. Firstly, it would probably make a bunch of people shut up about a bunch of pointless things. I heard one person say “a chicken is a person too” once. That person has clearly never been around chickens in their full glory. The person who said it had about a half dozen pet chickens. “Pet” chickens (wearing diapers, for what it’s worth) are not what chickens are truly like. Chickens are vile creatures that poke in their own fecal matter looking for a scrap of something worth eating. They are also cannibals. Thankfully, they are yummy too and so they do have some redeeming qualities, none of which are present in their live state.

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by Kevin Schroeder | 12:00 am

Free slides for user group meetings

One of the problems I have heard that user groups have had is that it is quite difficult to get content. Some of the larger, or more active ones, may not have as much of a problem with this but a lot of the smaller ones that I’ve talked to do. So what I’ve decided to do is, in effect, open source a lot of my presentations for re-use at user groups. What that means is that if you are looking for content specifically for a user group feel free to use some of my stuff to help you along. No warranty or support will be supplied, and they are provided “as-is”. What that means is that if you see something on there that is weird or perhaps even “wrong” I was probably using it as a keyword or reminder for something I wanted to say. So, if I wrote something that was spot-on, it was intended, if I wrote something that was wrong or inaccurate, I was trying to prove a point. It’s called nuance. 🙂

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by Kevin Schroeder | 12:00 am

I got me a Bumblebee

Zendcon is around the corner. I was at Adobe MAX last week and so I was debating whether or not I would stay the weekend in San Francisco. I’m not much of a night life person, or a partier. In fact, I usually prefer to work behind the scenes (kind of odd given my role next week). However, what I love to do is drive. Long, lonely highways or crazy windy roads. I love both. However, I live in Texas. We have plenty of long, lonely highways but nothing that’s really crazy windy (as in wind-y). So, if I ever stay in San Francisco over a weekend I like to take my car out and drive some of the roads out here. There are some great roads in the bay area that feed the crazy, windy person in me.

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by Kevin Schroeder | 12:00 am

Zendcon coming up

I had just tweeted something about Zendcon; how there were so many good sessions that it sucks that attendees have to choose between so many good ones. I mean, look at the sessions that immediately follow the keynote on Tuesday.

Integrating PHP with RabbitMQ – Alvaro Videla

A new approach to object persistence in PHP – Stefan Priebsch

The State of SOAP in PHP – David Zuelke

Advanced Date/Time Handling with PHP – Derick Rethans

Documents, documents, documents – Matthew Weier O’Phinney

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by Kevin Schroeder | 12:00 am

Architecting PHP applications for Flash at Adobe MAX

This marks the Friday prior to the start of the Adobe MAX conference. I was asked to speak on the topic of integrating Flash and PHP and I will be.

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by Kevin Schroeder | 12:00 am

You want to do WHAT with PHP? GIVEAWAY

I just got my copies of my book “You want to do WHAT with PHP?” today. During my conversations with MCPress, my publisher, I had asked for 3 copies to do a social media promotion and they agreed. I posted that I would be giving away 3 copies on Twitter and got a whole bunch of “I WANTS”. So I asked my publisher for more copies to give away and they agreed to another 6. So that is a total of 9 copies I have avaialble to give away.

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by Kevin Schroeder | 12:00 am

Could your PHP application benefit from asynchronous computing?

Tis the season for Zendcon. I am going to be giving a talk at Zendcon called “Do You Queue”. It will be about doing asynchronous computing in PHP. In order for me to gather some data I posted a twtpoll poll. The response has been pretty good. However, there have also been several misunderstandings as well. A few of them:

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by Kevin Schroeder | 12:00 am

You want to do WHAT with PHP? Chapter 10

With the book out and released I now reach the final chapter excerpt that I will have. As I said in one of my previous chapter excerpts, I did not write this book to cover a wide range of topics. I wrote it to cover a narrow range of topics, more fully. But the topics I chose were based off of my experiences as a Zend Consultant for several years. If you are someone with 2-5 years of experience (the typical requirement for a PHP job) you need this book. This book was born out of my experience dealing with code written by people with 2-5 years of experience, sometimes more.

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