I am in a great mood. Things have been "Coming up Milhouse" for me the last few weeks.

This is terrific way to approach the age of 30, which I will turn on Friday.

I am very pleased to announce that I am now my own boss! I have received a business license to work from home and have two very good clients.

This is something I am very excited about and so is Tressa. I have done a lot of research into tax information, accounting, the whole rigamarole and know that it is not only a viable option, but actually should increase my earnings and flexibility. I know that I have the discipline and skill necessary to be successful on my own business.

Will keep you posted on further developments.

Hello everyone. I am very busy at the moment, but here is a quick update of my goings on.

Yesterday, Tressa and I went to a Kings of Leon concert. We both thought it was pretty good but not exceptional. It was very nice to get out and take in some live music.

I am currently finishing a single chapter as a collaborative author for the upcoming book HTML 5 Games Most Wanted. This project looks very cool as it discusses several very distinct and current topics. The book does not yet have a cover image. My chapter will be entitled "Beginning WebGL" which is the Web Graphics Language.

Here's a hodgepodge of stuff: Wedding planning is going fairly well. I turn 30 on October 21st. Looking forward to Halloween - seeing Tressa's M&M costume and the Pipster's costume (whatever she is gonna be). And I hope to have some interesting news in a few weeks (no it's not a child)...

After the big event that kick-started the summer, the rest of July and August went by fast and without much excitement. We are busy preparing for next year's wedding and tightening up our chequebook. I went to OSCON in Portland, Oregon for a couple of days which was a great experience and Tressa went to Rocky Mountain House for a family visit. That is about it though in terms of travel.

Tressa is back at school teaching and enjoying it very much. I just finished a technical review of the upcoming Apress book Foundation HTML 5 Animation with JavaScript.

We are trying to get the most out of the beautiful weather while it lasts, going for some nice "strolls" in the evening and discussing houses along the way that we would hypothetically buy.

The Apress book, Pro PHP Programming, which I coauthored is available for eBook and print order now and will be in stores in a few days.
Apress
Amazon
Chapters/Indigo

I have written seven chapters:
3 - Mobile PHP
4 - Social Media
10 - Libraries
11 - Security
13 - Refactoring, Unit Testing and Continuous Integration
14 - XML
15 - JSON and Ajax

The Full Table of Chapters of the Book is:

1. Object Orientation
2. Exceptions and References
3. Mobile PHP
4. Social Media
5. Cutting Edge
6. Form Design and Management
7. Database Interaction I
8. Database Interaction II
9. Database Interaction III
10. Libraries
11. Security
12. Agile Development with Zend Studio for Eclipse, Bugzilla, Mylyn, and Subversion
13. Refactoring, Unit Testing, and Continuous Intergration
14. XML
15. JSON and AJAX
16. Conclusions

Appendix - Regular Expressions