Build a CentOS LAMP server

I finally finished re-building a development CentOS LAMP server. More importantly, and the primary purpose of the whole exercise, is that I finished my guide to building a CentOS LAMP server. I am happy to now post said guide on this blog (under Articles), for everyone to read and abuse as they please! So here you go… may I present Blake's CentOS LAMP Server Guide, single-page edition, and the perhaps friendlier...

PHP 5.3 – Namespaces and Late Static Binding

Work on the Mono machine continues. For reasons as yet undisclosed, I'm rebuilding the Mono test box from scratch. I'm not expecting this to resolve the previous issues I experienced while benchmarking Mono, but it is allowing me to tie up some loose ends. More on that soon. In the meantime, I noticed a new article over at Sitepoint about the upcoming PHP 5.3 release, slated for later this year. Apparently some...

Reasons Why You Shouldn't Write Things Like &...

Morgan was trolling newsgroups the other day when he stumbled across a fun flamewar going on in microsoft.public.dotnet.framework.aspnet. Someone started a topic based on an old blog post entitled "Why PHP is better than ASP". If you read the ensuing thread on the newsgroup, you'll discover why I never read newsgroups. It's like sawing off the top of your head using a dremel and putting rabid Portugese...

Welcome!

Welcome to the blog! I'm the PHP guy. I'm excited to be collaborating on this with my brother, as all of my witty jabs and jests can now be recorded for a public audience, enhancing their finely-honed humiliating edges to deliver zesty slashes of ridicule! So as it's a new year, and this is a new blog, it's totally inappropriate that I start things off with a death announcement. In case you hadn't...