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Michael Girouard

Mike Girouard is a front-end web developer living in New York City. As the Sr. Developer at the creative agency Magnani Caruso Dutton, he takes pride in his ability to introduce web standards and beautiful code to industry giants such as Discover and AT&T. In his offtime, Girouard goes right back to his editor and codes toward his latest open-source baby, Panda PHP Components. You can read more about him and his other projects on his blog, http://www.lovemikeg.com/blog.

Rolling Your Own MVC: The Page Load Scenario

By Michael Girouard

Before I get into any sort of detail, I think it's important to say that there is more than one way to approach an MVC. Go ahead, ask a few seasoned developers how they would hack together a project like this and each one will give you a completely different answe...

May. 13, 2008 08:30 AM Reads: 4,252

Rolling Your Own MVC Framework - Starting-Point for Any PHP Application

By Michael Girouard

Over the next couple of articles, I'll be walking you through the process of developing a simple MVC framework that you can use as a starting point for almost any PHP application that needs to be developed. Furthermore this framework won't be like any other framewor...

Apr. 29, 2008 03:30 AM Reads: 4,197

Are the Job Titles "Web Designer" and "Web Developer" Too General?

By Michael Girouard

There are a lot of professions that have emerged from the web: designers, developers, strategists, search engine optimists, information architects, usability and accessibility consultants, the list goes on... Today, I'd like to talk about the first two. I wouldn...

Apr. 8, 2008 02:00 AM Reads: 5,457

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