Zend Conference 2007 Slides ... just like being there (sort of)

I did not attend this year's Zend Conference due to the scheduled birth of my son right around the same time.

I spent a few hours over the October 20th and 21st weekend tracking down slides from the conference. Imagine how I felt about losing those few hours when I saw that Cal Evans from the Zend Developer Zone did all the work for me.

[Link: Zend Conference 2007 Slides]

[Tags: php, zend, zend conference]

Great 'How to Interview Programmers' article

In refreshing my programmer interview skills this week, I came across this great article that I had found a couple of years ago.

[Link: How to Interview a Programmer]

Clever Carving ... The PHPumpkin

A colleague of mine, Brian DeShong, from my former employer, Schematic, has carved the PHP logo into a pumpkin in celebration of PHP and Halloween.

Great job Brian!

[Link: Behold…the PHPumpkin!]

[Tags: php]

PHP Zend Certification

Zend has finally associated both of my PHP 4 and PHP 5 Zend Certified Engineer (ZCE) Certifications to my account in their Zend PHP Yellow Pages.

SMS through email

I was setting up some reminders in Yahoo to email my wife about our daughter's soccer practice and needed to figure out how to send reminders to her to phone.

After a google search, I found a page with SMS email domains

T-Mobile:phonenumber@tmomail.net
Virgin Mobile:phonenumber@vmobl.com
Cingular:phonenumber@cingularme.com
Sprint:phonenumber@messaging.sprintpcs.com
Verizon: phonenumber@vtext.com
Nextel: phonenumber@messaging.nextel.com