It’s weird how worlds intersect. Here is some lobbycon dialog:
“I don’t know, but if you plot the points, there aren’t many intersections. I’ve noticed it on my Facebook: The Open Source world has different geeks, and then the Web 2.0 world is mixed up. Priorities are f’d—people like X, who are big in the Web [...]
In condensed matter physics, there is an area called turbulence that has wide practical application: weather, golfing, navigation, bridges, building subs, boats, and planes.
(Most of you know turbulence from those random unexplained dips you get when your plane is in flight.)
But for theoreticians, turbulence is different.
In 1941, some Russian guy wrote a theory for the [...]
It came out in conversation today if there were other Ruby on Rails sites bigger than Twitter. The answer is, yes.
The top five ranked Rails-powered sites as tracked by Alexa and provided by this list. Note that the graph is semi-log.
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Eli White is no longer at digg.
He was one of the first PHP programmers there, has given a zillion talks about it, and he works remote.
Someone should hire him stat!
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A friend sent me this article with the comment, “I think you will enjoy reading this.”
I did. Thanks.
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Georgina sent me two more recs. The first is for a front-end developer and the second for a PHP developer (and front-end).
Front end web developer - Online Messaging (Redwood City, CA)
PHP Web developer - Facebook Photo application (East bay area, CA)
Apparently, you can mention my name and I get a bonus. If you get the [...]
“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 [...]
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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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 [...]
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 [...]
