Some of you may not immediately catch the sarcasm intended to be portrayed by the title of this post, but anyone who knows my coding preferences or has heard me complain (in a good way, of course) about the server structure with which we are currently stuck with at work, you will have no issue with understanding the tongue in cheek nature of this post. I have actually been amazed at how many times in the last week I have run into servers that have yet to offer PHP5 in their configuration settings, even as an option.

I have had the privilege to make the aquaintence of a few new friends and work with them on a project, which I will cover in depth in another post, and through some web work I’ve done for the project, I’ve been made aware of three separate hosting companies (which shall remain nameless) that still do not have PHP5 installed on their servers. What’s more, after some checking, some of them apparently do not even offer it as an option. This has made me appreciate my current hosting company that much more, for they not only offer a choice between stable versions of PHP on my account, but they go to the extreme of allowing me to declare a PHP version for each individual domain or sub-domain that I wish to set up. As a developer, this sort of flexibility is invaluable. Read more

I’ve been toying with the idea of starting a blog for some time now. I have been encouraged by friends and colleagues on many occasions to take advantage of the exposure the blogging world can afford a developer, but I’ve always just used the “I just don’t have the time to keep it updated” rhetoric. I finally decided that I have enough going on in life that it might actually be worth taking the time to document some of them. I have had a couple opportunities open up recently that really may be helpful, informative or simply interesting to someone else out there.

While I hardly view my life as an interesting canvass to display for the world to see, I do, on occasion, have some thoughts or insights on different topics that may be worth writing down for posterity’s sake. I suppose only time will tell whether this blog will prove to be an utter waste of time as so many blogs out there today are or whether it may actually be a worthwhile venue. If you find yourself wondering what sort of madness may escape my keyboard, the majority of my writings will most likely be related to technology in some way. Read more