Ron T Goff

Everything you wanted or didn't want to know about this guy.

Welcome to rontgoff.com. This site (really single page) is a collection of the professional and a little bit of the personal life of Ron T Goff (this isn't narcissistic since it's written in the 3rd person). Ron pretty much lives and breathes technology (not literally) and has been a professional web developer for the past 10 years. He's been able to lead and program web development projects and products at his previous employer Conveyor Group. Currently he's employed by Matrix Manager where he is continuing the development of large products for automated direct marketing, integrated mass email marketing solutions and other exciting products soon to be announced.

Written Word

Besides Ron's web development, writing has taking a lot of time from his personal life. He's been able to contribute to the PHP Architect magazine 6 times and had the privilege to write an entire book on the PDF generation library PDFlib. Below is an archive of the books, magazines and online articles that Ron has written.

Title
Beginning PDF Programming with PHP and PDFlib
Publisher
PHP|Architect (Book)
Published
01/2006
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About
Thanks in large part to the excellent support of Adobe, PDF documents have become the de-facto standard for exchanging information when typographical accuracy is a must. Written by author Ron Goff, with a foreword by Thomas Merz (developer of PDFlib and founder of PDFlib GmbH), Beginning PDF Programming with PHP and PDFlib provides an excellent introduction to using the PDFlib library to create beautiful documents of varying complexity from a PHP script.

Title
Logging into a RETS server
Publisher
PHPBuilder.com (Online)
Published
06/2004
About
Tutorial based on the RETS 1.0 platform for logging into a RETS server and downloading MLS data and images. Full Article

Title
File Fixing Robots
Publisher
PHP|Architect (Printed Magazine)
Published
09/2004
About
Have you ever suffered a defacement of your website or even a fellow employee delete and important file from your server by mistake without you knowing until you got a phone call telling you to fix the server now? Then you may benefit from one of the automated PHP robots that Ron Goff describes in this article!

Title
RETS: Small Name, Big Possibilities
Publisher
devshed.com (Online)
Published
10/2004
About
Advanced tutorial based on the RETS 1.0 platform for logging into a RETS server and downloading MLS data and images. Full Article

Title
Secure Your System with a Port Security Guard
Publisher
PHP|Architect (Printed Magazine)
Published
11/2004
About
Intrusion prevention and detection are two essential components of a successful security strategy. In this article, Ron Goff discusses the creation of a "port guard"--a PHP-based system designed exclusively to detect and act upon malicious activity on your server's Internet connection.

Title
Where in the World was that Photo Taken?
Publisher
PHP|Architect (Printed Magazine)
Published
01/2005
About
Ever wonder where a photo was taken? We’ve all seen exotic or interesting photos, but really had no way of pinpointing their location. Now, with the marriage of GPS and digital photography, we can know the exact location of where our favorite photos were taken. Ron Goff shows you how in this article that brings together digital photography, GPS position and a bit of PHP magic.

Title
PHP at Home
Publisher
PHP|Architect (Printed Magazine)
Published
08/2005
About
Do you have "dumb" appliances at home that you wish were a little smarter? Have you ever wished you could control the lighting in the next room from your terminal? Author Ron Goff has done just this, and all with our favorite language--in this article, he shows you how.

Title
PDFLib’s Block Tool
Publisher
PHP|Architect (Printed Magazine)
Published
01/2006
About
If you’ve been developing for any length of time, you’ve probably been tasked with to generating PDFs at some point. In this article, an excerpt from Beginning PDF Programming with PHP and PDFlib, Ron Goff discusses the process of combining data from many sources into a single PDF—from installation of the block tool, to creating the blocks in Adobe Acrobat, and then finally working with the blocks via PDFlib.

Title
Sprinkling a Little Ajax
Publisher
PHP|Architect (Printed Magazine)
Published
12/2006
About
Everybody’s talking about Ajax, but it’s a mystifying kind of a thing when you first look into it. Here’s an account of author Ron Goff's Aja awakening, with an entry-level introduction to using this weird and wonderful new Web technology alongside PHP 4.

Title
Codeslinger: The New West (Fiction)
Publisher
Unpublished
Published
2005
About
After many years of Codeslinger being batted around like a shuttle cock from online publisher to online publisher, devshed.com to codewalkers.com back to devshed.com, I’ve decided it’s time to give Codeslinger a place of it’s own, since no one else would. I’m not bitter really I’m not, well not that bitter, I was just tired of not seeing the story finished and I may be the only one. But any way welcome and enjoy the story and other tidbits that will unfold on these cyber (chessy early ’90s reference to anything online) pages Codeslinger Blog.

Personal

About Ron's personal life. Shortly after being married to Nadia in 2003 they gave birth to their first daughter Zowa in 2004, then Dexter came shortly after in 2005 and then and hopefully the last Owen was born in 2007. You can see this sometimes carnival like family on Flickr.

Contact

Located
295 W Allen
Brawley, CA 92227

Phone
(916) 367-7577

Email
rontgoff@gmail.com (Difficult I know)

Twitter
twitter.com/rontgoff

LinkedIn
RonTGoff's Profile