How Comic Con made me love being a geek again.

Last week (July 23,24,25,26) was Comic Con and it was such an awesome, geek invigorating experience for me, that I had to share it as the first episode.

So I talk about Comic Con, the people, the Geek love, and the re-awakening of something that I thought died along time ago.

I also briefly talk about the maturation of Geek Culture and why some of that may not be a great thing.

I reference my Flickr Stream from Comic Con .. so if you want to check that out , it is here : [ Flickr ]

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On this weeks episode Stephen and Nicholas talk a little Comic Con, and do a versus run on PHP topics.

Also, Stephen’s dogs insist on joining the show, but they don’t add anything of value to the topics.

For our comic con discussion, if you want to see Stephen’s Flickr stream of photos go here : [ ComiCon Flickr ]

We start the PHP portion of our show with Static Vs. Dynamic and then Server Dynamic vs. Client Dynamic, with some caveats on Client Side scripting.

We also toss a little discussion of Form Validation and Form Sanitation, and Nick gives us some code to use for quick and easy Sanitation of form data. You can get that here : [ Code Snippet ]

We also hit on the overall capabilities and advantages of PHP and do a quick and dirty rundown of PHP vs. ASP.

If you want to set up your own LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP) server check out this great walk-through : [ How-To ]

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