I scoured the Internet for the past few days to see how many applications are actively writing their PHP code in an OOP (Object Oriented Programming) fashion and the results are surprising. I have found that many existing applications are not taking advantage of this ability that began its’ existence in PHP 4, which then spread its’ wings like an eagle and soared in PHP 5. I have been working on converting one of my largest projects in PHP from a style that is FAR from OOP to an architecture completely based on OOP and this experience has been very helpful and challenging and primarily based on my .NET experience with OOP.

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• Web standards checklist
• iPhone
• ActionScript 3 QuickTip #6: Loading XML
• A Video for All Designers (15 minutes, but worth every minute)
• Bono’s extraordinary TED Prize acceptance address
• 3D morphable model face animation. Very cool, they even morph my all time favorite girl Audrey Hepburn

Long time users of Search-This will no doubt know cpradio. Matt pretty much grew up on Search-This. When he was just a young lad in high school he was administering the forums and helping people with all their web related needs.

Matt’s passion has always been as a coder. Now that Matt has graduated college and become a full time software engineer there’s not many languages he hasn’t worked with.

Look for Matt’s, or rather cpradio’s first article this Monday titled: “OOP in PHP from a .NET OOP Perspective” - should be a good read.

I can’t really welcome cpradio as a new member to the team, because he has always been part of the team. So just enjoy his bio below.

User Name: cpradio

• childhood ambition: to be a software developer, seriously, it was…
• fondest memory: looking at my old code and just realizing what an idiot I was back then
• favorite music: anything but elevator music, seriously, how do you not fall asleep to elevator music?
• retreat: hiking in the smokies
• proudest moment: three weeks of hammering an application, countless thankful users
• biggest challenge: writing quote engines for an insurance company and making it easy to maintain
• alarm clock: 6:30 AM on a good day, 4:30 AM on implementation day (project going to production)
• perfect day: my wife told me it was her wedding day, err… our wedding day.
• first job: PetsMart stocker/fork-lift driver
• indulgence: hard drives, I have 10 (in one PC) equaling 1.8 TB but that is not enough
• favorite movie: geez, I can’t just pick one, that would be unfair to the rest of them
• inspiration: knowing knowledge has no limits other than a person’s refusal to continue learning

What makes it so great?
According to FORTUNE the new No. 1 sets the standard for Silicon Valley: free meals, swimming spa, and free doctors onsite. Engineers can spend 20% of time on independent projects. No wonder Google gets 1,300 résumés a day.

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In this post I would like to talk about one aspect of floats that is often misunderstood which is how the backgrounds, borders, margin and padding are handled on content that wraps around a floated element.

When an element (perhaps an image) is floated alongside some text then the text is moved out of the way and allowed to wrap around the floated element as required. This is understood quite well and everything works smoothly until perhaps the text has a background color or borders such in the case of a styled heading as shown in the code below.

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SEO agency coding techniques can help ensure that your site content, layout, and CSS is SEO friendly once your CSS is complete and all floats are fixed.

Anyone who has spent time over at the hugely popular SitePoint forums learning CSS will know Paul O’B. Paul has logged over 16,000 post helping people to learn CSS.

When one sets out to learn CSS they quickly learn the names Jeffrey Zeldman, Dave Shea and Eric Meyer. While these three deservedly have made names for themselves by writing books, speaking at seminars and creating popular websites. Paul O’Brien has quietly helped thousands to learn CSS. You would be hard pressed to find someone who has spent more time in the trenches helping people write clean, cross-browser friendly CSS code.

So it is with great pleasure that I can introduce Paul as a new member of the Search-This team!

Enjoy Paul’s Bio below and look for many great post from him to come.

User Name: Paul O’B

• childhood ambition: To grow up
• fondest memory: Birth of my Children
• favorite music: Jackson Browne, James Taylor, CSN&Y, Eagles, Beatles
• retreat: None
• proudest moment: Getting my Third Dan Black Belt in Karate
• biggest challenge: Getting my Third Dan Black Belt in Karate
• alarm clock: No
• perfect day: Sun bathing on a nice warm beach
• first job: Van driver for my fathers packaging business
• indulgence: Chocolate
• favorite movie: Blade Runner
• inspiration: Bruce Lee

Since its conception the goal of Search-This was to help web developers make their web sites more successful. Search-This focused primarily on teaching about search engine optimization and website promotion. While this still remains a top priority of Search-This it has become clear that in order to have a successful web site there are more areas that need attention.

So I have traveled far and wide to assemble an elite team of super geeks humans to help. Over the next month I will be introducing new members of the Search-This team. Each member is highly skilled in an area of web development. These areas will include SEO, CSS, PHP, Ajax, .NET, XML, Flash and many other three letter abbreviations!

Together, I believe this team will be able to provide you with the expertise and knowledge you need to make your web site the most successful that it can be!

Thanks and stay tuned,
Mark Angeletti (Golgotha)