All about building a website but the administrative/business stuff: that goes in “business and economics.”
I finally created a Facebook account. Someone mentioned FaceBook being the new MySpace just one e-mail before Aaron (who has been working at Facebook for a couple years now) sent me an invite.
I took that as a sign from God.
Mitch: [As the voice of Jesus] …And from now on, stop playing with yourself.
Kent: It is God…
—Real Genius, a Caltech favorite
Here’s Brian Solis’s blog I ran across because of the latest Lunch 2.0 event (oDesk): PR 2.0. Since I’m not a PR/Marketing type I don’t understand it, but other readers might find it useful in finding there is more to Web 2.0 marketing than “viral marketing.”
Actually, I’m hurt that in PR 2.0’s latest article, Jeremiah credited Joseph with co-founding Lunch 2.0 instead of me. He deserves to be boinked for that one, especially because I distinctly remember explaining to him how four of us founded Lunch 2.0 before I blacked out at the del.icio.us party.
Björn Schotte just contacted me via Skype.
Besides the obvious “Europeans are more hip to this Skype thing than us American’s” comment, it gave me an opportunity to find out what he’s been up to since I haven’t seen him for two years.Continue reading
Indeed.com’s Salary Search just got dugg because Walt Mossberg mentioned it.
I didn’t learn anything that I didn’t know back in April. But that’s because this feature has been available through SimplyHired for a while now (and I suspect SimplyHired’s may be a bit more accurate).Continue reading
I recently received the following book from Wiley:
I haven’t had a chance to read it yet so this will be a placeholder for a future review.
Hello
Thank you again for submitting a proposal for speaking at the Zend/PHP Conference in October. We have had an overwhelming response to our Call for Papers and, as a result, have had a difficult time in deciding which proposals to accept. After examining your proposal carefully, I am writing to inform you that it was not accepted in the first review cycle. However, we are placing it on a waiting list for further consideration.
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Most importantly, thank you for your patience as we investigate expanding the Conference schedule and thank you very much for submitting a proposal to speak at the Conference.
Ahh, the standard rejection letter! But how I got it is anything but standard and that’s what I want to muse about in this article.Continue reading
Question: Hey, my friend at Y! vertical search is looking for a decent memcached library in PHP but he says apparently too many of them. I haven’t even looked at the problem since I’ve never hit that sort of load with my session store yet.
Any suggestions of one library/code snippet in particular? Something quick and dirty.
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I just finished an interview with Marcus Whitney (of Rasmussed fame) for the Pro::PHP Podcast. It should be up soon.
I haven’t heard it yet but I think I made an error. I said that we made $500,000 in our first month of operation with eCards, but I think eCards only brought it $250,000 that month. (I’m bad with numbers.) In any case, if you factor in the premium suite (of which eCards is a part of), I might not have been lying. 😀Continue reading
Luke Welling’s OSCON wrap up reminded me of an incident.
No, not about my battles with Tourette’s, or, should I say, people confusing honest fucking programming frustration with Coprolalia. 😀Continue reading
Chris notes that Theo has posted his Six Reasons PHP Sucks PHP Lightning Talk.
My favorite part:
Reason # 4: User comments on the online documentation.
Allows PHP to expose what are perhaps the worst most dysfunctional and retarded code samples.
Reason #5: PEAR.
Allows PHP to expose what are perhaps the worst most dysfunctional and retarded code…
…in an easily downloadable/installable format
If you aren’t laughing, you haven’t used PHP.
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