First Post

I'm starting to blog about my most recent software development experiences nights and weekends. Right now I'm working with PHP and server side scripts.

This is a big difference from most of the last decade where I've been working with more static, strongly typed, compiled languages. Also I've spent lots of time working on Real-time and Embedded distributed systems. So web apps are both very similar and very different from my last work on distributed programming and Command and Control systems.

As a plus, my Mac came with Apache and PHP preinstalled. Wow! Made things very easy.

There's a major speed boost given the existence of PEAR and some of the packages available including new web services (like Amazon).

More later. I'm thinking once I get done with PHP on the server side I need to master JavaScript and AJAX on the client side. What do you think?