PHP has become the hot commodity recently, exploding into the public as one of the most popular and easiest programming languages to learn. It has quickly swept the web by storm for its easy of use and also vast expandability for web 2.0 applications. With more and more people interested in web development every day, there are countless resources for learning PHP from beginner to professional rather quickly.

I have compiled a great list of some of my personal favorites for learning PHP, and I encourage everyone from beginner to expert level of PHP to take a look at them. Not only are these books great resources for learning new concepts with PHP, they are also great reference materials for future projects! Continue reading…

I know it’s been forever since I’ve updated this blog, so I figured I’d post a bit about what I’m doing currently. I had, a few months ago, started school again, and since this is my senior year it’s been a great time. However as my first semester has come to a close, I have lost 2 great classes (unfortunately). I was signed up for an independent study to practice for my A+ certification, a class with just me and my friend in it. It was a great learning experience, and definitely a change of pace from my usual software and programming-based use of computers. And even though I do work for Geek Squad, it was nice to have a class where I could just work on whatever.

I spent a lot of the class working with CentOS Linux, which was and still sort of is 100% new to me. I realize that most websites and web hosts use Linux-based servers, and I’ve found out through careful examination and readings that the Linux distro most commonly chosen is CentOS. So I grabbed an old machine the school had, downloaded a copy of CentOS 5, and thew that on there and started going at it. At first I didn’t really see how much different it was from Windows, until I started getting into the folder structure and such… it was all so different! I spent a good 5-6 weeks studying Continue reading…