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My Journey to PHP: Converting web​fo​cus​de​sign​.com

As I hinted in an ear­lier post about my move to WordPress, one of the rea­sons for that deci­sion was to help me learn PHP. I am well on my way and I have now cre­ated one client site with PHP (sim­ple stuff server-​side so it was easy) and I am now in the process of con­vert­ing my busi­ness site (web​fo​cus​de​sign​.com) which is slightly more com­plex but still easy. The pri­mary rea­son for that move is that I want to con­vert the blogs there to WordPress (2 blogs because i need one in French and one in English) and want to move the site to Mediatemple (mt). For now, the process has been… frus­trat­ing… Continue Reading →

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Dreamweaver CS5 and PHP

I just read a very inter­est­ing review of Dreamweaver CS5 writ­ten by David Powers. David is some­one I have known for many years and he has writ­ten many books related to PHP. He is some­one who’s opin­ion I trust.

So his review of Dreamweaver CS5 was of par­tic­u­lar inter­est to me as I am now fully embrac­ing the WordPress plat­form and learn­ing more about it every day. PHP is also becom­ing my sec­ond devel­op­ment plat­form (along­side ColdFusion) and any improve­ments to Dreamweaver for PHP devel­op­ment is great news to me… and appar­ently there’s plenty.

Unlike Fireworks CS5 which I have used and will review within the next few days, I haven’t used Dreamweaver CS5 yet so this review makes me anx­ious to get my hands on a copy and start inte­grat­ing it in my work flow.

He also touches on other issues like HTML 5 and CSS3 sup­port (or lack thereof) and why he thinks that, for now, Adobe made the right deci­sion. Thanks for the great review David!

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