After reading Paul’s article “CSS The Star Matrix Pre-loaded“, I wanted to contribute by writing a back-end solution to the CSS effect.

Before we get into this, you will need to have PHP 5 installed and MySQL 3.23 or higher. PHP 5 allows for greater implementation of OOP (Object Oriented Programming) than its predecessors.

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And now, ladies and gentlemen introducing the hardest working man in code business, the one, the only Vinnie Garcia.

It’s with great pleasure that I introduce Vinnie to the Search-This team. Sure, I had to put a gun to his head, but that’s the Italian way of doing things.

You may work hard, but no one works harder than Vinnie Garcia. The man is approaching the 20,000 post mark over at the SitePoint forums! And it shows, there’s not too many areas in the web world that Vinnie hasn’t at least dabbled in. So when Vinnie speaks, you’re gonna wanna listen.

Enjoy Vinnie’s bio below:

User Name: vinnie

• childhood ambition: becoming a cartoonist
• fondest memory: not sure
• favorite music: anything with a good beat; mostly rock, electronic, and hip-hop
• retreat: the beach or my headphones
• proudest moment: getting married
• biggest challenge: being married
• alarm clock: don’t use one, I tend to wake up early anyway
• perfect day: sitting by the pool doing nothing at all
• first job: warehouse assistant for a medical supply company
• indulgence: kickball
• favorite movie: lots of them, most recently: Borat
• inspiration: art, nature, architecture, and most importantly loved ones

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