There are countless articles, forums, blogs and other sites that try to either defend or blast PHP for use as a professional language for web development. There are a ton of PHP developers than ever before and there are many great options to choose from in terms of your web development technology.

A good example of these debates are like this one — which I will warn that you not read too much into as well!

Considering PHP is dominant due to it’s default installation with Apache on Linux web servers – the most dominant server distro on the web — this debate could greatly be ‘closed’ if these folks look through a magnifying glass for specific scenarios, or if they look to people that have worked on both sides of the debate — such as me.
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Ok so some of you may have noticed I redesigned my blog today.

Well I’d been seeing a bit of traffic increases through Google Analytics and just got time to work on updating the blog theme and most importantly start posting frequently. I thought I should take my own medicine that I give clients and get my blog and social media activities rolling again. It’s been a busy few months since I last posted about job and gig hunting and I needed an update!
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After talking to my friends Robert La Gesse from Rackspace Cloud and @vidluther from ThirdPartyCode, I decided messing with domain alias feature of Rackspace Cloud Sites so I could save money from getting a Cloud Server, VPS or slicehost.

If you need to run multiple-separate domains and one base master WordPress template theme with multiple children themes (like what I needed was a product site, 2 blogs, a community and a corporate site) without the need for wildcard subdomains or subfolders per blog/site then running a single instance of code and database on Rackspace Cloud Sites is possible using their domain alias feature.
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If you’re wondering how my music page is synchronized to my mix list @ Pimp Hand Productions you should install this plugin : An RSS aggregator (feed reader), supporting RSS 0.9, 1.0 and 2.0

It has built in caching layer and allows you to customize the output template if you know a little bit of PHP.