Jared discusses the matter of PHP tests given by employers to screen applicants. He points out the nature of a good test question and tells of question types to avoid.

Having written a new MediaServer class recently, Jared uses it power his Actionscript 3 audio player. The audio player uses the Model-View-Controller software architecture.

Jared creates a PHP media streamer class for images, audio, and video. With major browsers implementing html 5 with support for audio and video tags, Jared felt it was time to jump on the bandwagon and make a media streamer featuring seek capabilities. His MediaStreamer class is presented herein.

Jared details solutions for some potential technical hurdles one may encounter while installing Magento Community Edition (v. 1.41) on XAMPP (v .1.73).

Jared explains how Zend_Db_Select is a great tool for customization of many complex sql statements from a single core statement. He illustrates this explanation with an example from his own blog.

Jared explains how he coded a custom iterator using the SPL ArrayIterator Class and SPL interfaces. His custom iterator is a wrapper OuterIterator class which iterates over an inner ArrayIterator object. He explains why he chose the ArrayIterator class for his inner iterator object. He also discusses how interfaces methods hook into the foreach language construct (current, key, next, rewind, and valid methods) and count function (count method).

Jared creates a custom social bookmarking View Helper for the Zend Framework (Php) and discusses the ins-and-outs of the code, and how his View Helper relates to the topics of inheritance, the View object, the layout object, request object, etc.

Jared Welcomes everyone to the grand opening of his blog and explains some motivations behind it.