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… [Continue Reading]
Category: PHP
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… [Continue Reading]
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… [Continue Reading]
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… [Continue Reading]
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 :-).
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… [Continue Reading]
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… [Continue Reading]
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… [Continue Reading]
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… [Continue Reading]
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… [Continue Reading]
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… [Continue Reading]
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… [Continue Reading]
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… [Continue Reading]
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… [Continue Reading]
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… [Continue Reading]
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… [Continue Reading]
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… [Continue Reading]
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… [Continue Reading]
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… [Continue Reading]
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… [Continue Reading]