December 17, 2010 – 11:27 am
At last night’s Burlington, Vermont PHP Users Group meeting I gave an Intermediate PHP talk where I discussed working with arrays, functions, and objects. You can view the presentation on SlideShare or see the code examples on GitHub. A big thanks to Matthew Weier O’Phinney for helping to put together the presentation (unfortunately he was […]
November 18, 2010 – 4:32 pm
At tonight’s Burlington, Vermont PHP Users Group meeting I will be presenting on New Features in PHP 5.3. My talk will cover the primary new features including namespaces, late static binding, and closures. I’ll also talk about the newly bundled extensions, improvements to existing extensions, and some of the new syntax that is available. New […]
October 26, 2010 – 1:22 pm
Are you a developer or designer who makes websites? A List Apart is conducting their 2010 Web Design Survey. The findings will be published so that anyone can analyze the results (see the findings from the 2009 survey). From the article: It’s a story as old as time itself. In 2007, our conference division, An […]
October 25, 2010 – 5:43 pm
Yesterday I had the opportunity to see Barbershop Punk, a documentary by Georgia Sugimura Archer and Kristin Armfield, at the Vermont International Film Festival (there will be two more screenings this week at the festival). The film contemplates the future of the American Internet and surrounding issues. Following the screening was a panel discussion with […]
October 14, 2010 – 1:18 pm
If you live or work in the Burlington, Vermont area then be sure to stop by Vermont 3.0 taking place tomorrow (Friday) and Saturday at the Main Street Landing Performing Arts Center. Found Line will be exhibiting. We’ll be at booth G10 in the Great Room on the third floor. Hope to see you there!
October 11, 2010 – 11:09 am
Found Line had the privilege of designing and developing Vermont Public Radio‘s (VPR) new homepage. VPR’s Online Manager, Jonathan Butler, wrote a blog post about how the redesigned homepage delivers more content to VPR.net visitors. Here I’ll talk about the technology behind this new homepage. Atom Syndication Format Most of VPR’s web content is currently […]
By Bradley Holt
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Tagged Apache, Atom Syndication Format, ClearBearing, CouchDB, FOSS, Found Line, HTTP, Mobile Computing, nginx, Open Standards, PHP, Public Media, REST, Vermont, VPR, Zend Framework
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October 1, 2010 – 11:25 pm
I just wrapped up a four day Domain-Driven Design Immersion class with Eric Evans (author of Domain-Driven Design) and Paul Rayner. The class was put on by Eric’s company, Domain Language. If you’re looking for training or consulting in Domain-Driven Design, I highly recommend that you get in touch with them. I’d like to share […]
September 30, 2010 – 2:26 pm
Yesterday I tweeted: Modern object-oriented programming languages need support for immutable Value Objects. #DDD The “DDD” in that tweet stands for Domain-Driven Design. There were several interesting responses to this tweet. Kevin Schroeder thought that it made a lot of sense but pointed out that “need” was a bit of a strong word. I should […]
September 12, 2010 – 10:11 pm
A big thanks to everyone who attended, volunteered, sponsored, organized, and spoke at this year’s Vermont Code Camp—we had 23 speakers, 25 sessions, and 125 attendees! Check out some of the presentations, photos, and tweets from this past weekend. A special shout-out to Julie Lerman and Rob Hale for all of their hard work in […]
September 11, 2010 – 9:00 am
Matthew Weier O’Phinney and I are giving an Introduction to PHP presentation this morning at Vermont Code Camp. I’ve posted the slides to SlideShare and the example PHP scripts are available on GitHub. If you are at Vermont Code Camp and attended our session, please take a minute to give us feedback on Joind.in. Introduction […]
