So lately I’ve thought about switching my PHP development over to Zend Framework. The main reason for this is that I am just tired of rewriting the wheel. Most of the common problems with developing a PHP application have been solved and for once it would be nice to just build an application, instead of building a framework.

To get started in my efforts, I needed to set myself up with a local development environment. While I do have a production web server hosted with Slice Host (which this website is served from) and a local server at home, I wanted something that was a little less configuration heavy. After looking into several Mac OS X solutions, like XAMPP and Entropy PHP, I ran into Zend Server Community Edition. The first two, while decent solutions, were no where near as complete as the Zend provided solution. It was a clear winner for me.

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Amidst all of the CES buzz, there was an announcement about my most recent obsession, Boxee and the BoxeeBox. It seems that not only is the Boxee beta open to everyone now, but that the BoxeeBox itself is to have quite abit of power under the hood. Those who know me have had the unfortunate luck of having to hear me droll on and on about how much I love the up coming BoxeeBox.

Until today, all I had been waiting to hear was some news the hardware in the thing would be able to support 1080P HD video. In fact, now that the Tegra2 processor from Nvidia has been announced as the engine behind this little beast, I’m ready to put my name on the pre-order list for this little bad boy.

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Over the last several months, since I started writing this blog I’ve noticed a tiny trickle of visitors. Most seem interested in the Acer H340 that a blogged about in my first post. I felt bad for many of them, seeing their search keywords, knowing my little bit of writing wouldn’t help their plights. The only consolation to this has been that I knew adding the link to whsplus.com at the bottom of the article had been a smart move, as it seemed to help those poor folks out.

However, for the longest time I received almost no comments on any of my articles. While I would love nothing more than to see readers talking and asking questions in my comments area, I knew that not only have I failed to advertise this site, but that I really do not have any real compelling content as of yet. After all, this is nothing more than a personal side project.

Beginning when I changed the site’s name a month back I started to notice another change. I started to see some comments come through. The first was a classic bit of spam, all filled with links to various sites. Akismet caught it though, so no worries there. Then I noticed several others that, while short, seemed to be written by people. Finally living breathing people reading my site!! Or perhaps not.

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