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Terry Chay” by Chris Shifflet
Giving my talk: “The Underpants Gnomes Strategy Guide: An e-cards case study” at ZendCon 2006
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Is Ruby the dog and PHP the dogfood?
Category: PHP
Stuff about PHP (Personal Home Page or PHP Hypertext Processor), an open-source language for developing websites and web applications. And one of the few things out there with more market share than a Microsoft product.
In the beginning, there was PHP
True. 😀
Tagged is hiring (Senior Software Developer)
(I’m sure there are other positions we need to fill, but this one I have the full description for and would make my life so much better…)
The position is a Senior Software Developer at Tagged in San Francisco. It is a profitable pre-IPO social networking service ranked in the top 100 website. We develop in PHP and Java if that’s important.
The best thing about this position is you don’t work under me. 🙂
[Full blown job description after the jump.]
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Barcamp Sacramento
Adam Kalsey and Scott Hildebrand of SacStarts are holding a BarCamp in Sacramento on June 2nd and 3rd.
BarCamp is a conference where the participants are the speakers. Show up, sign up to give a session, and get going. There’s lots of networking in the halls, food, great conversations, and you’ll even learn a thing or two.
I love the price (free) 🙂 I’ll be there, maybe you should also. Maybe I’ll dig up an old talk or or test drive a new one (no doubt there will be some PHP involved in mine).
Show your support for the Web people a little further inland and signup!
PHP (and mac) pinup
I was catching up on some of my newsreading when I ran across this article, with the quote:
I thought I’d make it into this desktop image as a shout-out to all you (male) PHP devs out there. (There was an old PHP image I saw about five years ago sort of like this…those of you who remember, know what I’m talking about.)
(Passing thought: this person has been a PHP developer longer than me.)
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Ed Finkler agrees with me
From Pro PHP Podcast:
Q: What do you think are the three largest failings of PHP and Security?
“I agree with some things that Terry Chay has said about this: that the things that tend to make PHP insecure also tend to be the things that make PHP easy to work with.”
—Ed Finkler, PHP Security Expert, CERIAS
Thanks Ed. 🙂
Listen to the podcast. It’s a realistic assessment of the state of security in PHP.
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The beauty of buckets
Some of the more astute readers of my last article may have noticed that it took 40 seconds to run the LinkedIn sync on my address book. That’s not really surprising. Sync is slow and UI needs to accommodate it. Plaxo does this by popping up a warning and detaching the sync process so you can continue using the site.
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Web 2.0 Expo
Last week I skipped out of work for a few hours to hang at Web 2.0 Expo which was promoted by Dave McClure.
I had to scum a coupon code from Scott which was making the rounds, when I asked Dave a few months back, he was not very forthcoming. Maybe he misunderstood that all I wanted was a free pass to the convention floor; maybe he was afraid that I’d “hurl up my Lunch 2.0.”
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Eternal Pointlessness of the PHP Complier
Out of nowhere, the tired old dog of PHP compilation rears its ugly head.
Here is an recent e-mail exchange that puts it in its place (along with some information about code browsers and documentors and a lot of confusion on my part). I don’t think anyone is going to mind me posting these since the only one who comes off as an idiot is me.
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Database Abstraction vs. Data Access
Alejandro Gervasio has an excellent article on using polymorphism to create a database abstraction layer.
Basically if you are wondering why or how PEAR DB, MDB, ADOdb, or PDO use the Factory pattern to provide database abstraction this walks you through it.
Maybe five years ago, this was a mind-blowing idea. But perhaps we should call into question whether this is an unnecessary abstraction.
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