unlikelysource.com
There is a lot to say but so little time... unlikelysource.com is the magic behind the button. Just imagine for a second that you are filling in a form on a website. You then press the SUBMIT button. What happens next ... ? This is where unlikelysource.com comes in.
Specialize in high end programming projects, primarily in the PHP language. In addition to training videos and a book produced for O'Reilly Media, unlikelysource.com has been heavily involved with Zend Technologies in the development of educational labs. Main specialty: PHP, MySQL, MongoDB, as well as a number of other programming languages.
Just finished a book on PHP 7. You can find out more by clicking here.
When not massaging a computer keyboard, I like to write and perform original music. Over the years, under the stage name of Zelfë, I've gone from Classical to Rock and now, most recently, Big Band. Hear for yourself: click here.
Another pleasant diversion has been writing fiction under the pen name of Douglas Alan. Please have a look at The End, And Then? and also Further Indications. Both works are also available for download from Lulu.com here.
Authored a video training course on Doctrine for O'Reilly media. Topics covered include (among others): ORM (object relational mapping), DBAL (database abstraction layer), DQL (doctrine query language), Query builder, Life Cycle Events ... and much more. Also discussed is how to integrate Doctrine with: Zend Framework 2, CodeIgniter, MongoDB and CouchDB. Learning Doctrine »
Joomla Extension
unlikelysource.com maintains a popular Joomla extension, the Simple Email Form. Click below to visit the demo website and download the source code.
Demystifying Doctrine
Here is a tutorial which demonstrates how to migrate a Zend\Db\TableGateway based application to one using the same tables, but based on Doctrine.
PHP
New! Have a look at source code which demonstrates new features of PHP 7. Old! Have a look at continually updated sample code written over the years starting with PHP 5.3.