Learning PHP? Open Technology Group – Basic to Advanced Courses at Great Prices!

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Do you blog? Do you use Wordpress or a similar PHP based CMS on your own hosted server? There must be times when, like me, you know what you want to do, but you can’t do it. You can probably edit simple PHP instructions, enough to add lines of code to (dare I say, perhaps?) the right place…? But there are times that I really would like to know more, so I was pleased to find an offer from OTG’s PHP Training solutions to blog about them. If you are looking for PHP training, then Open Technology Group’s Zend Certified PHP MySQL Course may be the best solution for you.

For me, given my poor PHP skills, I’d be taking the basic course called “Zend PHP Essentials (3 days)”

PHP Essentials is a complete introductory course to the Zend PHP language. It includes coverage of all areas for both version 4 and 5 of the language and provides the student with the necessary tools to write Zend PHP scripts that are secure, efficient, and reliable.3-classroom

After that, I might take a more advanced level course than that, but I can’t decide which course would be best. Suggestions? Anyway, this company provides on-site instruction for 4 or more students at discounted prices (did I say ‘nice!’?).

If you are interested in attending any Zend PHP MYSQL courses you can also choose to attend some rather nice looking facilities at Morrisville, NC. The building is modern looking but most importantly, you are using good quality systems with the latest software from both Microsoft and Linux, including the latest in industry software, including (but not limited to) SUSE Linux, Ubuntu Linux, Slackware, Fedora Core, Red Hat Linux, the latest Microsoft software; and great hardward, with Dell Dimension 5150 Workstations with 3.0 GHz, 64-Bit, Pentium 4 Processors, 2 GB of RAM, 19″ Dell LCD Monitors, with ATI Radeon Video Cards (128 MB of VRAM).

If you are interested in affordable courses, then Open Technology Group’s options for on-site or at the facility may be ideal for your company.

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Of talk, income and software: Reading for April 20th-22nd, 2007.

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I don’t do this very often, though I should. I’m publishing some links to some interesting stories for you to check out this weekend. Once you read them, do please come back! So subscribe to our feed so you don’t miss anything!

Our first story is from Genius Types and highlights how talk really is cheap. Dealing with many different types of people from my professional, business and personal lives, I have learned how some talk and sound like savage guard dogs, or wise and knowledgeable types, only to discover that their actions didn’t live upto their own hype. A colleague, for example, who is typically late for appointments, and not just by the polite 5 or 10 minutes, regularly claims that s/he has no time for people who are late, has no respect for them either, and will not wait for them. Lately, I’ve come to judge people who do first, then talk about things later. Hence, I’ve told very few people about this blog, and how it’s really becoming something I love doing. Only about four people really know anything about it. I just don’t want to blab about things anymore. Genius Types Entry is called Don’t Tell Me What You Are Going to Do.

The second story is from a very new blog, called Self Made Minds, and focuses on Passive/Active income. There is quite a long entry that I’m composing now on this topic, one that I have been reminded of just in the past few months: How Long Will You Trade Hours for Money. In the article, you will find some examples of how to magnify your earning power instead of just having a 1:1 relationship: 1 hour of your time produces one unit of your income. And believe me, teachers, lawyers, McDonald’s workers, etc., we’re all in the same boat, albeit at different payscales.

The third story is more like a project article. It looks at software that will help you to manage private ads on your blog or website. OpenAds is the renamed software (used to be known as PHPADSNEW2.0). The article offers help step by step on implementing your first campaign on the advertising system. Naturally, this is an intriguing system but you have to be running your own server (hosted website, virtual host, or managed host) to be able to use this. Should be a good software to install and have fun with. I am considering its adoption for one of my client’s website some time within six months as his forum grows.  The article is entitled Managing Private Ads with OpenAds.

Do you have any suggested reading for this weekend? If you do, please link to this discussion.

Buzz: Google Docs adds Charting …

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For those Google Apps fans out there, Google has just added charting to the functions of the spreadsheet. I’ve added a few images to show what it looks like. Here’s what they say:

Now it’s easy to show data in simple graphics to friends or co-workers with charts. Select from various styles to meet your visualization needs. new charts

Now here’s what it looks like in real life. Just click on the pie to add a chart.

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Then you will see the following options appear. If you are used to Excel or OpenOffice charts, you will find these straightforward.

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And welcome to my first Chart in Google Apps. Not thrilling perhaps. But it does illustrate my average income from Blogging and other Passive Sources since I started this blog.

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So, quite functional charts, courtesy of Google Apps. If you decide to change the chart, just right click over it, and you will see some options.

And lastly, you can export the charts…, too. So look for that chart in a future posting!

Happy Blogging.