Much of my time is spent as a developer of web related software.  But recently I’ve found it impossible to avoid being drawn into some quite complex hosting issues - for handling my own sites and those of clients.  Experts in internet related software will be familiar with the problems I have found; many software [...]

After nearly a year’s work, my book on the building of a Content Management System using PHP was finally published in June 2008. Although when I started working on new code for a CMS, most hosting used PHP 4, it seemed clear that such a substantial development should be done in the more advanced [...]