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Now jQuery Enlightenment (jQE) isn't much of a book as it is a helpful PDF. It's not as long as your typical book, but it gets the job done in explaining jQuery and its core components. The topics that are covered in jQE range from Selectors, Traversal, DOM and Manipulation, Forms, Events, Plugins, AJAX, the Core and much more. Here's my quick take and review on JQE. Continue reading...

Cake 1.3 has been around for quite some time now, but I never had the desire to upgrade with it being in such a beginning stage. Well seeing as how its now in Alpha and many users are testing it with no problems, I thought it would be a good idea. Heres how it went. Continue reading...

By now most of you have heard that the awesome Nate Abele (which I had the privilege of talking to and partying with at Zendcon) is leaving the CakePHP team. A lot of developers were taken back by this and are unsure if they should continue to develop with CakePHP. Now, I find this ludicrous on many levels. Sure Nate was the lead developer, but that doesn't mean he was the only one. We still have the mighty Mark Story and the returning Larry Masters. Continue reading...

I just bought my ticket for ZendCon, 2 hours before the discount ended, pretty stoked about that. This will be my first PHP/Developers conference and I am thoroughly looking forward to it. I never really had an interest in these before but my passion for PHP has grown tremendously this past year, so its only fitting that I go. I will be going with some friends and colleagues, so it should be a blast and not just me by my lonesome. Continue reading...

So I have not posted for the past week, but I have a good excuse! I was attending Blizzcon and was doing coverage on Diablo 3 and Starcraft 2. If you dont know what Blizzcon is, its a giant convention held by Blizzard Entertainment that basically showcases their games. Continue reading...