A Day in Paradise

We’ve been busting our balls on the infrastructure of our new Hedge Fund Website creation project over the last couple weeks and since we did the official launch yesterday I figured it deserved a little link love
The heart of the hedge product a niche tool for hedge fund managers to manage their investor […]

A picture is worth a 1000 words:

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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 […]

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

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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.

“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?

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 […]

I’m blogging, I can’t help myself!!!

This is an extension to my latest comment on this blog entry.
If you search for just about any term in google, you will find that if a wikipedia entry exists it will be ranked among the top few entries.
This exposes a flaw in the concept of Google search algorithms, as despite the quality of […]

I’ve been waiting to reveal my conspiracy theory about the Google acquisition of YouTube, but then I saw this post about Sun’s Project Blackbox, and decided it was time to let the cat out of the bag.
Project Blackbox, is a mobile datacenter from Sun. About this time last year Cringley reported that Google was working […]

Anyone who has taken pictures of a group of kids will see the usefulness of this cool application. You take several shots shot in sequence, and then you can create a composite image which uses elements from both pictures.
Just choose the best faces from any of the pictures you’ve taken and then add them to […]