Archive for November, 2006

Guess the Podcast

Wednesday, November 29th, 2006

book, swedish chicks, book, php, security, book, book, conference, book, training, book, php, conference, training, conference, conference, book, book, conference, training, book, beer!

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Rewriting your Platform

Monday, November 27th, 2006

At ZendCon I talked about “Planning a PHP 4 to PHP 5 codebase rewrite, a practical approach”. The talk was based on my own experience, as well as famous discussion of the topic such as Joel Spolsky’s “Things you should never do” and the examination of “famous” platform rewrites.
During my monday morning surf, I bumped […]

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Hero or Villain?

Friday, November 24th, 2006

Russian former spy dies
I love the hypocricy which surrounds the glorification/demonization of spies.

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s/Backpackit/Google Docs & Spreadsheets/;

Wednesday, November 22nd, 2006

Just a quick note to let everyone know that I’ve stopped using Backpackit completely. It was cool at first but then when we get past a certain number of articles, the system breaks down.
Plus google has spell checking, tagging, and a ton of other goodness. The only thing that I have to get used to […]

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When is it too much?

Tuesday, November 21st, 2006

This disturbs me on many levels.
Police brutality is nothing new, but what was most shocking about this video was how little the 100 or more students standing around did to stop it.
The question that needs to be answered is “if not you, then who?” what is the point in having a free country with the […]

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Zend Framework Hidden Gems

Monday, November 20th, 2006

Just a quick note to let my planetary friends that I’ve created a page that is tracking all information about my Zend Framework Hidden Gems series of articles.
More information on my Zend Framework Hidden Gems page.
I’m not going to waste blog space reiterating what is covered in the link above, but just wanted to mention […]

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ZendCon / PHP Conference Slides UP

Monday, November 13th, 2006

My ZendCon and PHP Conference slides are up.
Moving to PHP5 with Style
Planning a PHP4 -> PHP5 platform Rewrite
Advanced PHP Tools (tutorial)
I enjoyed these two conferences a lot, and wrote up a not-so-technical review of ZendConference2006 on my “corporate” Hedge Fund Website Creation blog. A writeup of the PHP Conference is coming up.

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Skype Out Message

Friday, November 10th, 2006

“We’re sorry the telephone that you are calling from is not in service at this time”
What does that mean? I’m using it aren’t I?

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Human Cow Hybrids — Moo

Thursday, November 9th, 2006

Frightening article on BBC about creating human/cow hybrids:
The hybrid human-bovine embryos would be used for stem cell research and would not be allowed to develop for more than a few days.
But critics say it is unethical and potentially dangerous.
Liberal Democrat MP Dr Evan Harris - a member of the Commons Science and Technology Select Committee […]

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