Author Archives: Bradley Holt

I am a software developer, web developer, entrepreneur, and an advocate of free/open source software, open standards, and open content. I am the technical director and co-founder of Found Line—a creative firm located in Burlington, Vermont—where I develop standards-based, accessible, and cross-browser compatible web applications.

Standards

March 27, 2008 – 11:23 am

I’m sure everyone has heard the phrase, “The great thing about standards is that there are so many to choose from.” I think we finally have a coding standard for everything we do at Found Line – from PHP to CSS to web file names. We’ve gone through a couple of iterations and various options […]

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PHP Users Group Meeting Last Night

March 27, 2008 – 10:24 am

The Burlington, VT PHP Users Group met last night. Thank you Bluehouse Group for hosting and providing pizza and soda! Rob Riggen gave a talk on PHP Frameworks: 3 different ones and we went around the room talking about a PHP function or tip that helped us in the past. I decided to talk about […]

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PHP Users Group Meeting Tonight

March 26, 2008 – 11:56 am

The Burlington, VT PHP Users Group will be meeting tonight at 6:00 pm in Richmond, VT. The theme for this meeting is, “My Favorite Function.” Come prepared to talk briefly about a PHP function (or tip) that has helped you out during your PHP development. I still haven’t decided what my function or tip will […]

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Zend_Layout and Zend_View Enhancements Webinar

March 25, 2008 – 2:56 pm

I missed the Zend_Layout and Zend_View Enhancements Webinar but the recorded Webinar and slides are now available. The Webinar covers a few of the cool new features that became available in the Zend Framework 1.5 release last week. These new features give web developers who are using Zend Framework a way to solve the problem […]

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Plain Old Semantic HTML (POSH)

March 24, 2008 – 5:33 pm

I didn’t realize someone had coined a clever phrase for this concept. The basic concept of POSH is creating (X)HTML that is semantic, or structural, rather than presentational. Most people experience the web as a visual medium and thus assume that it is a visual medium. Many web development tools (such as Dreamweaver’s WYSIWYG editor) […]

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