Overview

Hi, I’m Kevin. I do software development with PHP and relational databases, and I’m also a dad.

my recent projects:

SlackerTalk
My pet project: the SlackerTalk forum has been going strong since 2008, with over 1.6 million posts and 200+ active users.
Photo-A-Day Challenge
The complete collection of photos from my photo-a-day project in 2009

my latest blog posts:

Phun with Phing, Part One

A quick walkthrough for creating mutexed targets in Phing, a build system for PHP. [more]

2012 Photos: The First Quarter

The rules for my 2012 Photo-A-Day project are simple: take at least one photo a day use the Canon T3i or the Apple iPhone add to my flickr set try to learn [more]

OS X VPN Tip

I've been having occasional VPN connectivity issues on OS X (Snow Leopard), and a quick google search turned up an explanation and a workaround. Posting it here in case I need [more]

Twig & Bery's Update

One of the things I've been working lately on is a partial rewrite and refactoring of my wtBoard project (the engine behind SlackerTalk). The coding practices I used when I [more]

PHP Annotations

Annotations - friend, enemy, or frenemy? [more]

Quick Alerts in Silex

With just a few lines of code, you can build Symfony2-style flash notices in Silex. [more]