Whew! Sorry for the lagging posts. I was on vacation for 2.5 weeks and then sick the last two weeks. Nothing like spending the last few days of vacation with the flu :o(

I was hoping to have posted more during my vacation but I guess sometimes you just need to unplug. I have been thinking more about why I started this blog and where I wanted to take it. In thinking this, I was realizing I have not really blogged about programming which is part of the reason I started this blog! Part of the reason the thought to blog about programming was not coming to mind was due to my own lack of programming! I have started back into a project I have been hoping to launch by Fall of 2008.

I have done my fair share of online tutorials and searching for how to draw the line between requirements gathering, application design, and implementing the project. I have also searched for some good tutorials showing how you truly separate the layers of your n-tier web application. The tutorials and technology these days are better and appear to be less “theoretical” and more “practical” in implementing those layers.

What I am interpreting in these ventures online is that people can code but not necessarily how to break down a project into pieces to be coded. I am hoping I can start to fill that void using some of the thought processes coming up as I go through the web application I want to launch this Fall.

If you are wanting to learn how to code an object-oriented shopping cart application in PHP, subscribe to my blog for upcoming posts on how to go about doing this! I don’t think my working on a shopping cart in PHP is a secret so lets start there. I am hoping this will also get more readers registering and commenting asking questions as we go along. So… let’s get started!