Archive for the 'web development' Category

PENIS certificate

Wednesday, February 13th, 2008

Received an e-mail today advertising a great example of three rights making a wrong:
Recipe for disaster
Ingredients:

1 part favorite web programming language

1 open source book publisher
1 alma mater

Instructions:

Combine all ingredients.
Spinkle terminology liberally.

Charge $1600.


Not sure what to think about this, but I’m starting to wish I got rejected from graduate school. When people start charging for what [...]

Time to set my phasers on “kill” (PHP and Enterprise Scalability Part 4/5)

Monday, February 11th, 2008

Why Enterprise Web Scalability is Science Fiction:

You Use PHP to Troll WHOM?!. The wherefore of this article and an introduction.
Even the Pros are Cons. Why PHP’s advantages in enterprise are a form of backhanded compliment.
Sinking a fleet of FAIL. Reasons for why PHP should not be used in enterprise fail you.
Time to set my phasers [...]

Sinking a Fleet of Fail (PHP and Enterprise Scalability Part 3/5)

Friday, February 8th, 2008

Why Enterprise Web Scalability is Science Fiction:

You Use PHP to Troll WHOM?!. The wherefore of this article and an introduction.
Even the Pros are Cons. Why PHP’s advantages in enterprise are a form of backhanded compliment.
Sinking a fleet of FAIL. <——THIS POST Reasons for why PHP should not be used in enterprise fail you.
Time to set [...]

Even the Pros are Cons (PHP and Enterprise Scalability Part 2/5)

Thursday, February 7th, 2008

Why Enterprise Web Scalability is Science Fiction:

You Use PHP to Troll WHOM?!. The wherefore of this article and an introduction.
Even the Pros are Cons. <——THIS POST Why PHP’s advantages in enterprise are a form of backhanded compliment.
Sinking a fleet of FAIL. Reasons for why PHP should not be used in enterprise fail you.
Time to set [...]

You Used PHP to Troll WHOM?! (PHP and Enterprise Scalability Part 1/5)

Monday, February 4th, 2008

Why Enterprise Web Scalability is Science Fiction. Its five part mission: to explore myths of PHP, to seek out this “Enterprise Scalability”, to boldy go where no web developer would bother going before… *queue music*

You Use PHP to Troll WHOM?! <——THIS POST. The wherefore of this article and an introduction.
Even the Pros are Cons. Why [...]

The best blogging system ever

Wednesday, January 30th, 2008

Hmm it looks like my rant touched off a spirited defense from the writer of Mephisto.
Hey, that’s my blogging system! I’m just curious what kind of error page a bad url should show? Something like this?
And yes, the mephisto title is me having fun. Lighten up, dude I never said it wasn’t shitty, but [...]

Must…resist…urge…

Saturday, January 26th, 2008

I’ve been a big supporter of Zivity.
My PHP friends tease me about this because Zivity is built on Rails.
Well, I got an invite to Zivity Beta the other day, so I figured I should subscribe to their blog. Today, I just wanted to link this great article from Forbes when I ran across this…

Okay, when [...]

Being popular

Tuesday, January 22nd, 2008

After the merkley??? party, I went with some friends to Matt Mullenweg’s birthday party.
(Matt, for those of you who don’t know, wrote Wordpress which over the years has become the premier blogging application on the internet. Matt also gets a lot of shit from me when I talk about programming)
My friends and I are chatting [...]

OOps! I (recycled my talk) again!

Monday, January 21st, 2008

PHP is a hacky piece of shit that gets the job done that somehow that suits me just fine.
I honestly don’t know why I support SF PHP Meetup.

Quite frankly, I find the whole “Meetup” website strangely-segmented, overly-restrictive, and a closed-off and archaic anachronism. I am counting the days until Facebook or Ning finally gets their [...]

geekSessions on PHP

Tuesday, January 15th, 2008

[This is a placeholder about tonight’s geeksessions on PHP at 6PM EST in Financial District in SF.]
If you can’t make the event, you can watch the live stream at Justin.TV Geeksessions (starts at 6:30 PM EST).