Archive for the 'PHP' Category

My favorite language (code)

Wednesday, July 1st, 2009

Internationalizing the a website, you run into a problem where you don’t know what strings you’ve parsed out for localization or not.
For these tasks, my favorite language is “zxx.” I use that code to replace all strings with some XX’s. Now any strings (or images) I missed are immediately evident.

PHP Engineering positions in Sunnyvale

Thursday, June 11th, 2009

I think this is different from the last one, since this one has three openings, instead of a single senior one.

PHP developer, version 5, production environment, ideally with the ZEND Framework
6 years of overall PHP experience with a minimum of 3 years of development within a production environment/10 years of overall development experience
Bachelors degree required
Would [...]

Senior Engineer in PHP (Sunnyvale)

Thursday, June 11th, 2009

A small, but promising company in Sunnyvale is seeking a Sr. Software Engineer with the following skills:

Recent deep experience with the LAMP stack, particularly object-oriented PHP5 and command line Linux skills.
Experience developing large, transactional web sites.
Any e-commerce experience is a big plus.

Projects that the candidate will be working on depending on their mix of skills [...]

Writing and speaking

Thursday, May 7th, 2009

I can’t find the conference speaker badges so this will have to do. The fact that it feeds my ego doesn’t hurt either!

Paul wrote something nice about me. In fact, it’s so very nice, that I can (almost) forgive him for listing me sixth.
Reading his description reminds me how grateful I am every [...]

How much does a date() cost?

Wednesday, May 6th, 2009

One of the fringe benefits of open sourcing an existing code base is that you have an opportunity to set error_reporting to E_ALL | E_STRICT, or perhaps rather to 2147483647. When you do that you find small problems with your code base you missed the first time you sloppily wrote it.
In my case, I noticed [...]

I want a PWNy

Monday, May 4th, 2009

Someone has a problem with their “WAP” installation…

Stealth Startup needs final engineer

Friday, May 1st, 2009

I know this isn’t likely to be a PHP posting (I’d thinking they’re probably thinking more along the lines of C or Java but I don’t think it’s been settled), but since I don’t know the details (they’re in stealth and I don’t ask), I can’t say. Besides, it’s a good friend who told me [...]

Autoloading and Lazy Loading

Sunday, April 26th, 2009

Two and a half years ago, when first wrestling with the Tagged codebase, I asked Andrei about replacing all my PHP includes with __autoload. I was told under no uncertain terms to not do this.
I did it anyway.
It’s not that Andrei is wrong in his admonition. Far from it! For reasons that I don’t quite [...]

Join Kiva for a Developer Drink-up

Wednesday, April 8th, 2009

Halle is interning at Kiva, which, given her personality, I figure is her dream internship.
Kiva is a microfinance site for the poor that allows anyone to give flat-rate microloans via PayPal. As a coincidence of the “I seem to have a lot of cash” and my New Year’s resolution to be a more responsible person, [...]

Web development as torture

Saturday, April 4th, 2009

Apparently one commenter found my April Fools article “ham-handed.”
ham-hand⋅ed
clumsy, inept, or heavy-handed: a ham-handed approach to dealing with people that hurts a lot of feelings.
I’m sorry that some people didn’t realize that an article was meant to show off someone else’s April Fool’s prank. I guess the snippets of code showing the joke, putting it [...]