If you’ve coded yourself into a problem that you can’t figure out and you’ve spent hours debugging always remember this simple rule to solve your problems faster:  Reduce and Simplify.
If a solution to a problem isn’t obvious by looking at your code (or output), then start taking chunks away until you don’t see the problem [...]

I’ve been busy writing and have launched two new tutorials:
MODx Templating Strategy is tutorial that will show you a best practice for developing scalable templates in MODx CMS.
PHP Tools of the Trade is for PHP beginners and will let you in on all of the software and server knowledge that you need if you want [...]

In September I wrote a post, “Duplicate Content Solution For Mobile Sites“, which was about how to make a mobile version of your website and not get the duplicate content penalty. In that post I wrote “I’ve never had the chance of using an iPhone but I can’t imagine that a few extra inches [...]

I recently received a copy of MODx Web Development from Packt Publishing to read and review here on DEVTRENCH. The book came a few days ago in the mail and I’m about 2 and half chapters in. So far, I’m pretty impressed at how detailed the book is, and think it would be [...]

I’ve recently begun to develop a website in the symfony framework and that got me thinking about why you’d want to develop with a framework at all.
1. Security: All good frameworks come with security helpers to protect your code and data from XSS and other hacking attempts. Make sure the framework you choose escapes [...]

A hard thing for me to figure out when first using php from the command line was that it uses a different php.ini than apache does,and can even be a different version of php. It was also hard to figure out what php.ini was loaded. Here are some useful commands if you find [...]

I’ve been developing this website in earnest for almost 2 years now and during those 2 years I’ve learned easy traffic tips that never fail. These might seem easy, and they are, but some do it better than others (and a lot do it better than me). But, no matter how good you do [...]

After reading Jeremy Shoemaker’s latest newsletter I was pretty psyched about getting some speech recognition software to increase my blogging production by like 1000%. After a bit of Googling I found I’ve had this power in the palm of my hands ever since I installed MS Office. I just had to install speech recognition [...]

I was finally able to watch episodes 5-14 of TAC over a 3 day stretch last week. Overall I was pretty impressed with the show, even though my initial impressions left me wanting more. The acting got better, and they actually showed how some things were done, and some of the contestants shared [...]

I’ve finally got the chance to view TAC episodes 2, 3, and 4 along with reading other people’s comments of the show. I really don’t want to add to the negativity of the show that seems to be in everyone’s posts because I really don’t see the point. I mean, yeah, the production [...]