This is officially the first post of many to come.  I have never really had the chance to start a WordPress blog before.  Well, maybe mentioning that I never really had the time to work on one would be better.  I always enjoyed building a site from the ground up.  Starting to think about how I will design the file structure, and what design pattern to choose from always get me excited.  I don’t think I need to mention the gratification you get from launching a site that you have been working on for months to the public eye.

So I am admittedly late to the WordPress blog show, but I am doing this to contribute everything that I have learned along the way about PHP and other web technologies to the PHP community.  My motivation behind continued work on this site comes from all the developers out there that have offered advice or have troubleshooted my PHP design mistakes in the past.  I hope that I can use this site as a conduit to other PHP developers to share ideas that we can all learn and grow from.

I am currently in a living situation that cuts me out of the loop from the Web 2.0 world.  I live in Indiana/Ohio and believe it or not, the only way I can hear about or learn more about PHP is from blogs, and php.net.  I’m sure I am not the only person in this situation.  Some day, I do plan on moving the West Coast or New York, where I can be around more like-minded people.

I just wanted to use this first post on Brown PHP to welcome you and hope you stick around to contribute and learn more about the great things that PHP can do to make the world a better place! :P