As you are probably aware, today is April 1st a.k.a. April Fools Day.  A day when people try to make fools of other people.   If you weren’t aware or forgot, you may have already been tricked into believing or doing something crazy and didn’t even realize it.  Techie types are stereotyped as being boring, straight-laced, and basically no fun.  Today is a day to show a different side.  And who else to start the day off than Zend. (more…)

While browsing through the PHP documentation, I came across some very useful new functions available in PHP 5.3.0 for working with dates and times.  (more…)

After downloading and installing the full version of the Eclipse PDT (PHP Development Tools), I was ready to start using Eclipse in my SimplyMEPIS (basically Ubuntu) distro to edit PHP code. To my surprise, the PHP perspective was not working. (more…)