Reading [this blog post ranting on PHP][phphorrors] > No corporation supports PHP’s growth & maturity like Sun & Google do for Java, Google (Guido van Rossum) for Python (jnc Django framework), Ruby (inc RoR) by 37 signals etc… 37Signals & Ruby? Thank his noodly appendage PHP’s support isn’t as terrible as that company on that […]
Previously: [Part 1][programming1], [Part 2][programming2], [Part 3][programming3], and [Part 4][programming4]. I received an interesting question the other day from a recruiter: > Would you be open to moving away from PHP? My answer: First, by analogy. I’m a photographer, most of the cameras I own are manufactured by Nikon. This is like asking if I’m […]
I found [this comment][megan] amusing: > Finally, [[Megan McArdle][megan mccardle]] as an approximately 6’ tall, moderately attractive woman — who likes guns — libertarian, objectivist, and conservative fan-bois glommed on to her like a million sperm all trying to fertilize the same egg, which provides its own kind of mockworthy spectacle The college I went […]
A friend asks whether they should use MacPorts or Homebrew. What they are, are ways of installing Unix (Linux or BSD) software on your Macintosh in a way that they get updated. This is useful if you need to customize your (L)AMP stack, or process a document in LaTeX, or do graphing visualization or -code […]
Notes from the Webinar. 2011-05-16. Leo Babauta with Louis Haus(?). Marie was listening to it, so I decided to take some notes to practice using [QuickCursor](http://www.hogbaysoftware.com/products/quickcursor), [MacVim](http://code.google.com/p/macvim/), and [MultiMarkdown](http://michelf.com/projects/php-markdown/extra/). The Habit Course: Create New Habits For Life ================ Reasons trouble having habits: – Losing Motivation: 40% – Life Gets In the Way: 29% – Too […]
I submitted a couple talks for [PHP Community Conference](http://phpcon.org/) last month, of which one was accepted. Unfortunately, it was the one I hadn’t prepared at all. The title was “living without your linemen” and was supposed to be about cloud services. A bit later, they asked if I could make it the closing keynote for […]
If you are attending confoo this year, I’ll be giving a talk at the beginning of the conference. Even if you aren’t a PHP developer, I think you’ll find the talk useful—as there is no language religion in it. I’ll be pleased if you attend. It’s going to be a little different from my recent […]
[This post is in progress. There may be a number of errors. Please comment below with corrections and I’ll update this article.] Facebook announced the release of HipHop for PHP today. Haiping Zhao Facebook, Palo Alto, California Sony DSC-WX1 1/80sec @ ƒ2.4, ISO400, 4.2mm (24mm) When I left Plaxo, Haiping was the server architect there. […]
Received this yesterday: So I’m thinking of starting a new web project and was wondering if I could seek your advice. My tendency is to use PHP since that’s what I know and have used most in the past. Though, after talking to a lot of folks (namely Googlers…go figure), I’ve been encouraged to instead […]
Original article posted to PHP Advent 2009, Click to jump to discussion. Happy Holidays to you and yours! Even the best of us can only write 1500 lines of code a day, so we need to make those lines count. There were so many great articles in PHP Advent this year, that I couldn’t think […]