Archive for June, 2008

Generic scaling

Monday, June 30th, 2008

“But one of the reasons we’re very lucky is our engineering team has selected to use PHP as the primary development language. That allows us to use a fairly generic server type. So we, with a couple of exceptions, have three main server types and run a fairly homogeneous environment, which allows us to then [...]

PHP anthem

Sunday, June 29th, 2008

IM from a friend:
See ya.
Oh, by the way in OS X shell:
say -v Good oh PHP ow ow oh PHP ow oh PHP ow ow oh PHP ow oh PHP ow ow oh PHP ow oh PHP ow ow oh PHP ouchie
for PHP anthem.
ROFL
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Internationalization PB&J

Sunday, June 29th, 2008

I had to suffer, now it’s Andrei’s turn.

Badges, we don’t need no stinkin’ badges.

No, what I mean is that Andrei needs to practice his talk before OSCONdebut his talk!
Description of the talk:
PHP 6 brings fully functional and mature Unicode support to the Web world. This talk will cover all the layers of the PHP (bread)/Unicode [...]

Quiet desperation

Saturday, June 28th, 2008

You: Did you read it?
Me: No, I don’t like to read. Reading for elitist liberal types.
Me: “Lives of quiet desperation.” Have you ever heard of that?
You: No.
[quiet desperation after the jump.] (more…)
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Zombie vs. Pirate

Friday, June 27th, 2008

OR:
Zombie: What, oh what is this secret that you will never tell? Your status keeps threatening to not tell. It even reads “EVER!”
Zombie: Muuuuuuuust knoooooooooow gosssssip!
Zombie: p.s. Braaaaaaaaaaains

Zombies
Z. Cioccolato, North Beach, San Francisco, California
Panasonic DMC-LX1
1//125sec @ f/4, iso 100, 6.7mm (30mm)

Pirate: I could tell you, but then I’d have to, you know, kill you. [...]

Egos and assholes

Thursday, June 26th, 2008

The strange thing about search is it’s a lot like academia: full of assholes. I know, since I’m one of them. So I was trying to figure out why this twitter about my Keynote bothered me so:
“@tychay apparently serving red meat to the faithful at #phptek proving there are language Nazis on both sides.
—tweet from [...]

McMusings

Wednesday, June 25th, 2008

Because Morgan thinks I need to blog more fast food…
Today at lunch, I was talking really fast when a friend corrected me, “That’s a Sausage McMuffin, not a Egg McMuffin with Sausage. But the one with the ham is just called an Egg McMuffin™.”
“Actually, it’s the Sausage McMuffin with Egg™, because I think they used [...]

Cody’s closes

Wednesday, June 25th, 2008

The last Cody’s Books is closing. Years ago, I would go to one on Telegraph when visiting my brother, who reads even more than me.
I can’t believe it.
Cody’s.
Berkeley.
Free Speech.
Closed.

Books Everywhere
City Lights Bookstore, North Beach, San Francisco, California
Leica M8, Zeiss Biogon 2,8/25 ZM
1/60sec, iso320, 25mm (33mm)

[My local bookstores after the jump.] (more…)
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Following the trail of poverty and crime

Tuesday, June 24th, 2008

Wow.
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Job: PHP UI Engineer (Mountain View)

Tuesday, June 24th, 2008

Restarting this policy…
Job listing - User Interface Engineer (PHP) in Mountain View, California. Contact aknight [at] this site.
The company has developed a shopping search engine that delivers comprehensive lists of products and their corresponding images, ranked by the leading products, brands, stores and styles on the very first page of results. They call this [...]