Over the last couple months I had a chance to help create a great new product for Stumbleupon. Su.pr lets create short urls, publish directly to Facebook and Twitter and gives you great tracking and statistics around them. Su.pr also…
Hbase fun
For the last couple weeks I’ve been working pretty heavily with Hbase. It decidedly has different usage patterns then Mysql, but since I don’t often get to use anything relational in Mysql because of performance reasons it hasn’t been to…
Server Outage Today
There will be a server outage today starting around 6:30pm Arizona Time The servers will be getting new IPs during this time so assuming we don’t run into DNS problems everything should be back up in around 2 hours. I…
New code in PEAR2
I got to setup 3 new projects in the PEAR2 sandbox today Console_CommandLine – Port of PEAR1 code, php 5.2 for now Template_Dwoo Smarty compatible template engine, code hasn’t been imported yet, author is working on a 5.3 plan see…
Heading off to php|Tek
I’m heading off to php|tek tomorrow. I’ll be giving 2 talks I hope to see you all there. I hope my slides are complete as well .
ie8 new features announced
Microsoft has released information about whats it adding to IE8. The changes for developers look pretty good. The biggest things I see are: The selectors API (built selecting elements by css, there is an inprogress w3c spec for this, Webkit…
fastcgi for IIS 6 is out
Last month I had a change to goto Microsofts WebDev07 conference. I haven’t gotten around to doing a write up but Travis did a good one if your interested in what Microsoft has to say to a bunch of PHP…
Messed up upgrades and Tags
I upgraded to WordPress 2.3.1 yesterday and do to some earlier failed upgrade all my post categories got messed up. Luckily I only have about 300 posts so re tagging everything wasn’t that painful. But word to the wise, if…
phpDocumentor 1.4.0 scheduled for release on 7/20
The PhpDocumentor team hopes to release the final 1.4.0 stable feature release on 7/20. If you have test-driven any of the recent pre-releases for 1.4.0 (alpha1, alpha2, RC1, RC2), please let us know any good/bad feedback you have from that…
Slides from azPHP presentation of PEAR: An Introduction
Tuesday I did a presentation about PEAR at my local PHP user group. Those slides are now available. I’m hoping to improve the slides a bit and give this presentation at lots of other places. If any PHP User groups…
Thanks for your thoughts on improving PEAR
I’d like to thank everyone who left a comment on my last post about How you would improve PEAR. You’ll be happy to know that were already working on many of your suggestions, Greg’s post on the subject has some…
How would you improve PEAR?
You might have heard that I’m a member of the PEAR group now. Because of this I’ve been spending a lot of time thinking about what I’d like to see changed in PEAR to make it a better project. I’m…
PEAR elections begin tomorrow
The PEAR elections start tomorrow, if your a PEAR developer you’ll want to read people’s position statements so you can make an informed vote. I hope these elections will be the beginning of the a rebirth of PEAR. It was…
Testing phpDocumentor 1.3.2
The phpDocumentor team is just about ready to do a bug fix release. The code is sitting on the server and ready to be uploaded, we just want to get some extra testing done. If you could install 1.3.2 do…
Pear Mirror
Thanks to Greg’s efforts I’m now hosting a mirror of the PEAR channel. At the moment were only mirroring installer data not the entire website but its a start. Things are still in the testing phase, but the mirror is…
PHP Running on Java
I found an interesting project, quercus that compiles PHP to Java Bytecode allowing it to run ontop of the Java Resin Application Server. It has a couple neat features, one being PHP6 compatible unicode support, the other being easy integration…
What i’ve been up to
I haven’t blogged lately but I’m going to try to get with it again. Last month I finished up a big project built on top of WordPress, and then started a new job. I’m doing less PHP coding in my…
phplondon conference 2007
A couple years I got to spend some time going to the phplondon user group. Its was a great group full of knowledgeable PHP developers who love to have a good time. They have been successful at growing the group…
Compressing JavaScript and CSS
When your building fancy AJAX websites one thing that tends to happen is you end up loading amounts of JavaScript and CSS on your pages. And while browsers are smart and do a lot of client side caching you can’t…
Deciding What AJAX Programming Style to Use
In my AJAX book, Understanding AJAX, I spend a lot of time talking about the various programming styles you can use with AJAX. Looking back at the chapter it seems to me there are 2 major styles of programming and…