A Day in Paradise

We need another programmer for our team here in West Palm Beach, FL. It’s not rocket surgery, we’re just looking for a PHP guru with a good knowledge of css, mysql, zf, javascript, etc. Knowing Flash/Actionscript is a plus.
The first test in the recruitment process is figuring out how to contact me! I will […]

I opened my google docs this morning (like I open it up every morning) and noticed that we now have the ability to create web based presentations from within google docs.

Not only did I find the interface fairly intuitive (after a 3 minute clicking session), but it comes with the functionality to actually present your […]

Greg Stein (Director of the Apache Software Foundation) was Mugged - Accepting Donations
Last Friday night Greg Stein was mugged and seriously injured outside of his home in Mountain View, CA.
They gave Greg a black eye and a serious laceration to the head which required numerous stiches. Apparently, he was bleeding profusely when the ambulance came.
The […]

Don Dodge coined Web2.0 as “Web App + 2 Founders + 0 Revenue”. Funny, and not too far off the money.
Don goes into detail about the various ways that Web2.0 firms are funding their efforts. This goes from Freemium (free basic membership with paid premium package) to Subscriptions to simple Advertising.
One thing that he doesn’t […]

This is in response to Cal’s post on SEO experts.
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It really depends on the framework… Zend Framework is very SEO framework. Others that rely on a lot of ajax or javascript POST callbacks to facilitate basic navigational tasks will stop a search engine dead in its tracks.
I have also seen frameworks which use strange http […]

This blog entry is an extension of an IRC discussion and email conversation that took place regarding the #phpc channel on Freenode.
Back in “the day” #phpc consisted of between 5 and 10 people, and as IRC channels go it was only us in there for about 2 years. This resulted in everyone getting to […]

I met Bertrand ‘toggg’ Gugger at LinuxTag 2005, and have chatted with him frequently on IRC since then. Yesterday I heard that toggg passed away on June 17th from a heart attack.
Toggg was a funny guy, he loved programming and being involved with the communities to which he contributed code. His grasp of written English […]

This interesting post describes one or the reasons why PEAR/PECL doesn’t allow (L)GPL code in the repositories
The problem that I’ve stumbled upon is that Ruby’s Gem repository is full of randomly licensed code, including lots of GPL stuff. At the very least, this information ought to be very visible so that it’s possible to weed […]

This are some notes from a talk I attended at the International PHP Conference in 2005. I don’t think I have blogged it yet. (you find all kinds of interesting things when you try to “clean up” your hdd)
Case study
Survey center is an online survey generator written in PHP. Used to run multi-country panel portals, […]

Tonight the frankfurt PHP User Group is celebrating their 5th anniversary! It was lots of fun knowing you all - I suddenly got a craving for Persian food - and I wish you many prosperous years.
Check out the website for meeting details. Wish I could be there.

6 hours till our plane lifts off and I’m still waiting for the gravity of the step we are taking to kick in.
While the physical journey is about to start, the journey started one year ago to the day when I flew up to West Palm Beach to meet with HedgeCo for the first time. […]

Yesterday I read the an article on Network Neutrality on CNN.com. The article was written by Craig Newmark of Craigslist and was VERY wrong.
Here’s part of what bothered me:
Here’s a real world example that shows how this would work. Let’s say you call Joe’s Pizza and the first thing you hear is a message saying […]

Some code that I am reworking has a table that looks like this:

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| uid | key | val |
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| 1 | name | Aaron |
| 1 | age | 28 […]

disclaimer: I have been up way too long!
I’m playing with my blog and put a banner on the top of my page that counts the days left to the Amazon launch of Scott Sigler’s new book Ancestor. Here’s the code that I came up with, makes me think there must be a better way.

<?php
$april1st = […]

A little note to anyone in the area that tomorrow (8th of March) is the PHP UG FFM meeting. Same place same time, with the following talks:

Slot 1) Jens: Gast von den web krauts - web standards.
Slot 2) Lars: Modsecurity am Beispiel
Being on the other side of the pond, I won’t make it but I’m […]