After recently passing my Zend Certification Exam I felt that it was time to set myself another challenge. This one is sure to hurt me a lot more but I know it’s definitely achievable with a little hard work in the evenings! So after seeing the hundred push ups website it’s time to jump on the bandwagon of people attempting the same challenge.
Happy days, last month I passed my Zend Certification exam on the first attempt, Carlton Dickson is finally in the Zend Yellow Pages for ZCEs.
The things that I would recommend looking at if you’re planning to take the exam are…
After discovering a few Google I/O conference presentations on Youtube something that grabbed my attention were the Google App Engine presentations. The Google App Engine allows developers to run their apps on Google’s infrastructure and not have to worry about server-related issues such as maintaining fast response times, reliability and scaling should your site suddenly receive a shed load of traffic. This is surely great news for startups who believe they will be big sometime in the future but aren’t willing to pay a silly amount of dough for the architecture to support their idea up-front, kinda like pay as you go…did I say the first 5 million page views and 500MB storage were free??
So I decided it was time for me to get my own shed, not the wooden sort used to get away from a nagging other half or fix the mower, but instead test out things that may come in useful in future projects or that look interesting. At the moment this only consist of an example of the Youtube chromeless player I threw together, press the play icon for some soulful grooves.