I am heading on a road trip soon that will last more than a year and will visit every U.S. state. In planning this adventure, I started to think about paths to take through the states. As I plan to camp for a good part of this road trip I wanted to ensure staying relatively warm throughout the entire trip. I decided to build a script that would help me figure out these paths and thought it would be useful to share with others.

I recently wrote an article about integrating search in your web application for OmniTI's Seeds. Search has always been an interesting web functionality to me and I really enjoy working within that problem space. Soon, I hope to expand on this article and to go into more depth with separate articles about implementation of specific search tool features and search result presentation and UI.

Chris Shiflett's recent blog revival post calls for much needed action among the community to blog more. I think this is a great idea. I haven't really jumped on the Twitter bandwagon and have always found blog posts to be more useful and discussion friendly. For me, blog posts are easier to find than Twitter conversations and stick around longer.

Pulling in useful blogs into a reader and usually filtering by a PHP tag is something that I think most people in the community already takes advantage of, if not, I would recommend it. It helps keep you apprised of the current ideas, problems, and information that the community is involved with and can be really useful in your own work and endeavors. With more people in the community writing, perhaps we can help push down all the riff raff that is out there when people google topics involved with PHP.

Thanks Chris for the call. I intend to answer it and write more. Cheers!