PHP: Sink or Swim

Today I'm taking my first real dive into PHP. I've dipped my toe in before but have never put on the wet suit. O'Reilly's Programming PHP will be my instructor. I'd imagine google will provide some tips along the way as well.

Can an OO man come to terms with a structured scripting language? Or will I run out of air along the reef? Ships ahoy!

Tuesday, April 28th

I'm working with portlets deployed to glassfish, running inside of Liferay 5.2.2. The portlets are written using html, jsp and jstl. I'm wishing I had a framework such as JSF for component definition. Unfortunately the JSF lifecycle has not proven to play nice with the portlet lifecycle. So for now, I've got component-specific code duplicated in multiple portlets. Make it work, make it right, make it fast. I'm on step one. At some point I'd like to introduce AJAX into the mix.

I'm also working with BPEL/JBI, utilizing the LDAP and J2EE binding components. The more I work with BPEL, the more impressive it is. However it is only as powerful as the binding components that exist. Last year I drudged through the JDBC bc but so far the LDAP and J2EE bcs seem fairly mature.

My First Post

This is the first post in my newly created blog. I usually blog in family-oriented and inspired blogs, as a means to share news, photos and life. With the advent of Twitter and Facebook, I've found my family blogs to be... quite.

So I've started this blog to track my professional experiences and thoughts as my career progresses. I talked with the CTO of FetchBack today and he turned me on to the idea of using blog history as professional promotion. I like the idea, so with out further ado...