There comes a time in each man's life where he must grow up, and become a man. Often times, in modern society, this means moving out of his parent's house and finding a place of his own.

While I haven't found a place of my own yet, it has come time for me to move out of my parent's house. Besides packing up essential belongings and moving them to my home at USC, this means that I have had to turn off my pride and joy - the server that lived in the closet of my old bedroom. The websites that were hosted on this once-formidable server have been moved to a new account at Dreamhost. Besides javconcepts.com, this includes teamshad.org and a few other projects. They will live at Dreamhost until I have a place of my own in which I can set up the server again. Long live my old closet server. And here's too 100% up-time, issue-free hosting on my new Dreamhost account!

Introducing BenBeitzel.com, the latest creation from JAVConcepts. BenBeitzel.com is the "officially rad website for Benjamin R. Beitzel," a musician, actor, DJ, and a recent graduate of the University of Pittsburgh.

One of my favorite parts about this new website is the videos page. Ben has produced a number of short videos with himself, and with his band Lovenotes. Ben's videos are creative and innovative, and are certainly a joy a to watch. The award winning Rhythm of the Park is a great example of Ben's talent.

Other sections of the website include recent news, a schedule of events, DJ testimonials, and a short Bio page with contact information.

Be sure to check out this new website, and let me know what you think by leaving a comment! If you like Ben's work, and can't get enough, then try the new Lovenotes CD entitled The Early Years, now available on iTunes.

Hello everyone! I have just secured a new job for myself for the next school year. The job is with Illumin Magazine, an online magazine put out by the Viterbi School of Engineering at the University of Southern California.

The goal of Illumin is to illustrate the many ways engineering benefits and impacts our daily lives. Illumin articles are created by students of the University of Southern California, and are edited by small team of dedicated student editors. The magazine prides itself on the unique multimedia that each article contains, such as music, pictures, and videos.

I will be taking the webmaster position at Illumin next Fall. I am very excited to be working with such a motivated group of editors. I hope to propel Illumin into the Web 2.0 era, and help to maintain its status as one of the best University-run online magazines in the nation. Be sure to check out Illumin, and see how engineering affects your life, every day!

So you want to learn how to program in PHP? Well maybe not, but for those of you that do, you're in the right place. PHP adds a whole new dimension to traditional website design. Some common uses are multi-part page compilation (header + content + footer), dynamic content, and database interaction. This article is best suited for someone who already knows HTML, and wants to learn how to write dynamic and interactive websites. If this sounds like you, then read on, and enjoy!

To make the most of this quick lesson, you should get access to a PHP installation so that you can test out the code for yourself. PHP is available to download for all major operating systems at PHP. A text editor with syntax highlighting is also highly beneficial. For Windows, I prefer phpDesigner 2007. It has a great feature where it will allow you to instantly refresh PHP output if you have PHP locally installed. For Mac, I would recommend my new favorite, Coda - although this isn't free. (Have a free Mac favorite? Let me know in the comments!) And, if you are cool enough to be using Linux, then you probably already have a favorite. But if you don't, then try Gnome's gedit. Now that you have all of this taken care of, you are ready to start programming!