Andrew Embler

First, a bit of history, then a breakdown of what we've done to make concrete5 so much faster in this new release.

We come in #1 in their CMS showdown.

An interview I did last year with Michael Gray just came out in PHP Solutions Magazine! Read on if you're interested in PHP frameworks and some thoughts on programming in general.

This article provides guidelines and code to let concrete5 add-on developers or anyone setup a concrete5 demo, complete with a limited administrative user, auto-installed packages, and locked down permissions. The demo can easily be reset at any time. (Note this how-to is for concrete5 5.5.0 and later.)

Version 5.5 of concrete5 is a great leap forward for our interface. Twitter's new UI toolkit, Bootstrap, is a big part of it. Learn about Bootstrap, how concrete5 uses it, and how you can include it in your blocks, dashboard pages and add-ons.

A list of all the places I know of where concrete5 was lucky enough to be featured in print.

On this week's Totally Random web show, we showed off what's coming in version 5.5. The changes are pretty sweeping. Read on for more info, and a chance to get a sneak peak.

In which it turns out we're all kind of screwed.

Learn how andrewembler.com uses liquid grid layouts, flexible font sizes and elastic image spacing to create a site that looks good on mobile phones as well as large widescreen monitors.

I've revamped my web presence yet again. I really need to get together an archive of all of them over the years. This design is pretty cool for a number of reasons. I think anyone with a concrete5-powered blog might find some of these approaches useful, especially if it has a technical focus.

Learn how concrete5 makes use of the Zend Framework, and why.

This article provides guidelines and code to let concrete5 add-on developers or anyone setup a concrete5 demo, complete with a limited administrative user, auto-installed packages, and locked down permissions. The demo can easily be reset at any time.

An introduction to integrating a wide variety of rich JavaScript functionality into the front-end of your concrete5 applications and blocks.

Learn how to build a simple FAQ system from scratch, including a single page interface for listing and sorting entries, a single page interface for editing entries, a page list template for displaying them.

Let me deliver these valuable lessons unto you.

Here's a simple option you can enable to improve the performance of Zend Cache. I'm including code for usage with concrete5, but this option is available to any application using Zend Cache.

concrete5's custom block templates are powerful - but what if you want the entire functionality of the original block's view template, just wrapped in something else? I'll show you how to make that happen.

Download an iPhone-optimized concrete5 theme, and learn how to automatically display it to mobile Safari on the iPhone and the iPod Touch.

I'm migrating from electricstate.com to andrewembler.com. 2010: Out with the old, yadda yadda yadda...

The first concrete5 theme developer screencast.

We learn the truth behind one of Apple's hottest products.

How does it work, what can it do, and what can it not?

Build chat bubbles for the American Presidential Candidates of 2008.

The best webmail just gets better.

My firm, Concrete Websites, officially launched the website for Lemonade.com, a startup with whom we’ve been working for months.

Safari steps it up a notch.

The definitive review of Google Desktop for the Mac.

My remix for the Nine Inch Nails track, Survivalism.

concrete5 was not my first CMS.

In early 2006, I launched a site that I hoped would compete with Citysearch.