From my dad via email:

new post… i own it…daniel rocks…come see my new home….LOL

I guess that was a hint to tell everyone that I own a house.

So right now I am patiently waiting to close on my house. On October 20th I should/will be the proud owner of a 3 bedroom 2 ½ bathroom house. I am very excited. So I have to start packing up the apartment and start looking for furniture. Loads of fun to be had.

Check out pictures of it here.

I hope everyone else is having a good start to October.

You only live once, and this is a definitely not a dress rehearsal.

So I finally took the time out to change my Wordpress install to be a checkout from Subversion (SVN). This will eliminate the headache of copying files to my website when I want to update to the latest version of WP. Following Wordpress’ upgrade procedures (even though I know how to use SVN very well) I was able to backup my old site and move my modification over to an SVN checked out copy of Wordpress. Since I use this blog regularly I decided to not checkout the trunk which would be the latest and greatest version of WP, and might or probably does contain bugs. I opted for the tag of the latest stable revision of WP (2.6.1). When I decided to update next all I will do is run the command:

$ svn sw http://svn.automattic.com/wordpress/tags/SOMEVERSION/ .

and I will be all set! For anyone looking for directions to do this, even if you are a newbie to subversion, Wordpress has a great tutorial on it for you: Updating Wordpress using Subversion.

So as some of you already know, in my venture to keep up on the development community and trends, I have started to review books for Packt Publishing. They have sent me a few books to read and review, and I will be posting them to my blog for everyone to read. I have picked books from them that I believe are topics worth exploring and actually reading from a book (and not just finding a resource online).

The first book that was delivered is the one that this post is dedicated to. Object-Oriented Programming with PHP5 by Hasin Hayder was picked to go over what I believe to be the base of successfully programming in PHP. Object oriented programming is not an option anymore when working in this business. So if you have been stuck as a procedural programming in PHP it’s time to remedy that and apply some new (well not really new) techniques and master the language. Read the rest of this entry »

CoLab Orlando is a co-working facility opening its doors next to my office at NFi Studios. I am very excited about it and can’t wait to see the Orlando Tech community get together at it. Etan Horowitz of the Orlando Sentinel has written about it in his blog. Open house for it will be on August 26, 2008 on the 6th Floor of the Angebilt Building. See the CoLab Orlando website for more details.