Shocking, I know, but it's true. Earlier today, Kansas Governor Mark Parkinson participated in an online chat in which he admitted it. I asked why he did not have any blog-like features on his self-styled blog (which Artur Bagyants properly deemed an e-newsletter) such as commenting. His full response can be read in the chat transcript, but here's the interesting part: I've received lots of input [after the launch of the site] that to be a real blog we need to make it interactive. We're looking at that possibility right now. I would love to know what people are thinking but we have to balance…
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Travis Swicegood
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Breaking News: Kansas Governor Supports Profanity, Nudity, and Violence on State Website!
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Fuck off, humanity!
19 Jun 2009 | 11:16 amAuthor's note: This is for me, and me alone. Don't like it? Don't agree? Replace "humanity" in the title with your name. There, I said it. I just got through reading this post (warning, you'll hate humanity after reading it). Seriously people, what the fuck is your problem? Ok. I'll use my inside voice now. If you've read this blog for a long time, you know that I am firmly in the gay rights camp (it's equal protection under the law, stupid). I've been taunted in some posts for it, called names, had family members "pray for me", etc., etc. But the one that gets me: I've been asked "you're not… -
My goals for the PHP standards group
2 Jun 2009 | 7:08 amA few weeks ago at php|tek, I corralled developers from all of the major PHP frameworks into one of the conferences rooms. The idea was simple: in the PEAR Group we've been discussing our new PEAR2 Coding Standard and have come to some conclusions on how PHP 5.3 code should be handled moving forward. A standard is only a standard if people use it, though, and PEAR is not entirely representative of the community at large. That's where this group comes in. By having official representatives from PEAR, Agavi, Cake, Solar, and Zend Framework and unofficial representation from Phing and Symfony,… -
Magic is to Python as Java is to PHP
13 May 2009 | 8:47 pmWow. I touched a live wire today in IRC without meaning to. I lamented over the inconsistency that Django has between it's generic views. It has to do with what the Python community calls magic and goes something like this. Django ships with these great generic views (if you're coming from another web framework, consider their views as controllers). Working with any framework long enough, you know that there's only so much to do. Handle posts to update, grab a list of objects or a single object, pass them off to the presentation layer, hand it off to designers and call it a day. They work… -
Race Report: God's Country Duathalon
26 Apr 2009 | 12:04 pmWow. It's been a long time since I've written one of these. Yesterday I participated in my first race in near (if not over) two years! Time flies, etc. Yesterday wasn't a traditional mountain bike race, it was a duathalon. God's Country Duathalon, 4 mile trail run, 12 mile mountain bike loop. Before you go getting all impressed at my multi-sport abilities: I didn't run, I raced a relay. A friend of ours is training for the Lincoln Marathon, which is next week, so the 4 mile trail run was a nice warm-up for the real festivities. If yesterday's run is any indication, she'll do great next week.
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WordPress Development Blog
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Themes are GPL, too
1 Jul 2009 | 10:50 pmIf WordPress were a country, our Bill of Rights would be the GPL because it protects our core freedoms. We’ve always done our best to keep WordPress.org clean and only promote things that are completely compatible and legal with WordPress’s license. There have been some questions in the community about whether the GPL applies to themes like we’ve always assumed. To help clarify this point, I reached out to the Software Freedom Law Center, the world’s preeminent experts on the GPL, which spent time with WordPress’s code, community, and provided us with an official… -
WordPress 2.8.1 Beta 2
26 Jun 2009 | 1:06 pm2.8.1 Beta 2 is ready for testing. Download it, check out the changes since beta 1, and review all tickets fixed in 2.8.1. We especially suggest, recommend, and beg that plugin developers test their plugins against beta 2 and let us know of any issues. Notable fixes in beta 2: Translation of role names fixed wp_page_menu() defaults to sorting by the user specified menu order rather than the page title Upload error messages are now correctly reported Autosave error experienced by some IE users is fixed Styling glitch in the plugin editor fixed SSH2 filesystem requirements updated… -
WordPress 2.8.1 Beta 1
20 Jun 2009 | 5:05 pmWe’ve started work on the first maintenance release to 2.8. 2.8.1 will fix a handful of bugs that turned up in 2.8. Today we’re releasing the first beta of 2.8.1. Download it, and check out the bugs fixed so far. Here are some of the notable issues that are fixed in beta 1. Certain themes were calling get_categories() in such a way that it would fail in 2.8. 2.8.1 works around this so these themes won’t have to change. Dashboard memory usage is reduced. Some people were running out of memory when loading the dashboard, resulting in an incomplete page. The automatic… -
2.8 Release Jazzes Themes and Widgets
10 Jun 2009 | 7:01 pmI’m very excited to announce to everyone that the latest and greatest version of WordPress, version 2.8 “Baker,” is immediately available for download. 2.8 represents a nice fit and finish release for WordPress with improvements to themes, widgets, taxonomies, and overall speed. We also fixed over 790 bugs. This release is named in honor of noted trumpeter and vocalist Chet Baker. Here’s a quick video overview of everything in the new release: The first thing you’ll notice is that visually 2.8 feels a lot like 2.7, just with some minor tweaks here and there. -
WordPress 2.8 Release Candidate 1
7 Jun 2009 | 4:29 pmWith Release Candidate 1, we think WordPress 2.8 is ready and complete. Download it, test it, and tell us what you think. If you don’t uncover any bad bugs, 2.8 will be released on Wednesday the 10th. If you’re interested in what has changed since beta 2, consult the changelog.
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Joomla Announcements
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Joomla! 1.5.12 Released
30 Jun 2009 | 9:46 pmThe Joomla Project is pleased to announce the immediate availability of Joomla 1.5.12 [Wojmamni Ama Woi]. This release contains a number of bug fixes and three moderate-level security fixes. It has been less than a month since Joomla 1.5.11 was released on June 3, 2009. This release marks an important milestone for the Joomla Project due to the upgrade of the PEAR library to the new BSD licensed version, which brings the codebase into full compliance with the GPL. In addition, this release contains an important upgrade to TinyMCE v 3.2.4.1. The Production Working Group's goal is to continue… -
Joomla Project Leadership
28 Jun 2009 | 3:55 pmToday we are proud to announce an important shift in the organisation and governance of the Joomla Project. This change is focused on making it easier to fulfill our mission, achieve our vision and remain true to our values. Firstly, we are simplifying the current Working Group structure. Secondly, we are changing the leadership and management of the project in a way that provides a more open and flexible structure. Thirdly, we are shifting the governance of the project to a model that reflects the increased maturity of the organisation and provides a solid foundation for sustainable growth. -
Joomla! Resources Directory Launched
13 Jun 2009 | 3:03 amIn response to overwhelming interest and requests from the Joomla community, the Joomla Project is pleased to announce the Joomla Resource Directory goes online today at resources.joomla.org. If you're a Joomla user, there's no easier way to find developers, service providers, and other valuable resources."We think this will be a great way to connect end-users and service providers in the Joomla Community," said Wendy Robinson of the JRD Team."Most small businesses can't afford to advertise on the Joomla.org sites and this will provide them wide exposure. With close to a million visitors and… -
10 Million Thank Yous
7 Jun 2009 | 10:04 amThe Joomla Project is excited to celebrate a remarkable benchmark in the world of open source—our 10 millionth download. As one of the most powerful publishing platforms available, Joomla has grown exponentially since it's first release in 2005, which was downloaded just over 72,000 times from JoomlaCode. That meteoric rise in less than four years is a solid statement by the Joomla Community about how the project changes lives all over the world. With Joomla 1.6 on the horizon, that same community is energized and excited for what the future holds. Development is underway on the next… -
Joomla 1.5.11 Security Release Now Available
2 Jun 2009 | 11:00 pmThe Joomla Project announces the immediate availability of Joomla 1.5.11 [Vea]. This is a security release and users are strongly encouraged to upgrade immediately. This release contains 26 bug fixes, two moderate-level security fixes and one low-level security fix. It has been 11 weeks since Joomla 1.5.10 was released on March 28, 2009. The Development Working Group's goal is to continue to provide regular, frequent updates to the Joomla community. Download Click here to download Joomla 1.5.11 (Full package) » Click here to find an update package. » Instructions New installation and…
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drupal.org
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JVIS – A global website for an auto-parts maker
2 Jul 2009 | 11:56 amJVIS USA LLC is an international supplier for automotive components and tooling with facilities in 6 countries and customers all over the world. Their website helps them introduce their products to auto makers. Going multilingual When JVIS commissioned their website, they requested just a few static pages. It was built as a simple static HTML site (no CMS) and in English. Very soon after launching their new site JVIS decided to localize to Japanese, Chinese, Korean, Russian and Spanish. These are the languages spoken by their larger clients. At that point Jason Marshall contacted us about… -
Drupal 6.13 and 5.19 released
1 Jul 2009 | 1:18 pmDownload Drupal 6.13 Download Drupal 5.19 Drupal 6.13 and 5.19, maintenance releases fixing problems reported using the bug tracking system, as well as critical security vulnerabilities, are now available for download. Both releases fix some other smaller issues as well. Upgrading your existing Drupal 5 and 6 sites is strongly recommended. There are no new features in these releases. For more information about the Drupal 6.x release series, consult the Drupal 6.0 release announcement, more information on the 5.x releases can be found in Drupal 5.0 release announcement. read more -
Enterprise-level Publishing Industry Drupal Site: In-Fisherman.com
19 Jun 2009 | 9:25 pmMediacurrent collaborated with InterMedia Outdoors, Inc. to redesign their family of interactive websites using the Drupal content management system as a foundation. This required the migration and restructuring of content from several websites hosted by a legacy content management system (CMS.) The result was a fresh, modern web design and a social network that allowed Intermedia’s users to access a vast repository of content quickly and easily. This case study focuses on www.in-fisherman.com, the first website Mediacurrent developed for InterMedia Outdoors, Inc. read more -
New book published: Drupal 5 Views Recipes
16 Jun 2009 | 7:38 amI'm looking at a fresh new copy of Drupal 5 Views Recipes. I wrote it, and I'm thrilled to see it in print. I have a mix of Drupal 5 and Drupal 6 sites out there. If you've got any Drupal 5 sites, consider this book. Appendices I'll start by mentioning the appendices, since I think that's one of the most information-rich sections of the book. (The rest of the book consists of 94 step-by-step recipes.) Appendix A – List of all default views available for Drupal 5 Appendix B – Comprehensive list of Drupal 5 field formatters, by module Appendix C – Comprehensive list of Drupal 5 style… -
Help us on the road to better Drupal documentation
11 Jun 2009 | 8:06 pmFor the last few months myself and quite a few community members have been working on a larger vision for our beloved Drupal documentation. It has taken quite a bit longer than I had hoped, but I want to put out a draft of an initial "roadmap" for documentation that outlines our bigger issues and an approach to tackling them. I've attached a document which has everything we've hammered out so far in a 10 page document along with three appendices. This post is just a short summary of what is in that document and to let people know that we are gearing up to kick things off and really make…
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php|architect's C7Y - Tag: news
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Ending Keynote and Social Events Announced for php|tek
What do Pecha Kucha, a Hack-a-thon, Rock'em Sock'em and Terry Chay have in common? Why, they will all be at this year's php|tek! -
New talks added to php|tek!
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php|a releases new Guide to Date & Time Programming
Learn to better handle time data with Derick Rethans' new book! -
Last day of our Mid-Winter Sale
Get your php|architect goodies before it's gone! -
php|tek news: keynotes, early-bird and hackathon
Andrei Zmievski to present keynote on PHP6, early-bird extended and Hackathon announced
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php|architect's C7Y
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Ending Keynote and Social Events Announced for php|tek
What do Pecha Kucha, a Hack-a-thon, Rock'em Sock'em and Terry Chay have in common? Why, they will all be at this year's php|tek! -
New talks added to php|tek!
The final schedule for php|tek is now available -
php|a releases new Guide to Date & Time Programming
Learn to better handle time data with Derick Rethans' new book! -
Last day of our Mid-Winter Sale
Get your php|architect goodies before it's gone! -
php|tek news: keynotes, early-bird and hackathon
Andrei Zmievski to present keynote on PHP6, early-bird extended and Hackathon announced
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Planet PHP
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Type hinting rehashed (now with type casting support) - Ilia Alshanetsky
4 Jul 2009 | 10:22 amThere has been a lot of comments both on this blog and the internals list. There seems to be a fairly large group of core developers who like the idea as well as surpassingly large support base on the user level too (wow, didn't think that this many people want type hinting). Unfortunately, there have also been, as is typically on the internals list a few people complaining for the sake of complaining. Their arguments have ranged from type hinting is against PHP's loosely typed nature and people will mis-use it and make PHP into something that it is not, to I don't need or will use it, so no… -
Scaffolding, implementing and using project specific Zend_Tool_Project_Providers - Raphael Stolt
4 Jul 2009 | 7:41 amWorking on a project involving several legacy data migration tasks, I got curious what the Zend_Tool_Project component of the Zend Framework offers to create project specific providers for the above mentioned tasks or ones of similar nature. Therefore the following post will try to show how these providers can be developed in an iterative manner by scaffolding them via the capabilities of the Zend_Tool_Project ProjectProvider provider, enlived with action/task logic, and be used in the project scope.Scaffolding project specific providersAll following steps assume there is a project available… -
Using Symfony Dependency Injection with Zend_Application - Benjamin Eberlei
4 Jul 2009 | 12:28 amAs a follow-up to my recent post on Dependency Injection containers and Zend_Application I was eager to find out if its possible to integrate the new Symfony Dependency Injection Container into the Zend Framework. To my suprise its possible without having to make any changes to one of the two components. An example use-case would look like: $container = new sfServiceContainerBuilder(); $loader = new sfServiceContainerLoaderFileXml($container); $loader->load(APPLICATION_PATH.'/config/objects.xml'); $application = new Zend_Application( APPLICATION_ENV, APPLICATION_PATH . -
Speaking in the Fall - blog.phpdeveloper.org » PHP
3 Jul 2009 | 7:47 pmWith the announcement of the speakers for this year’s Zend/PHP Conference it seems I’ll be giving three talks this fall (in the span of two months): First at CodeWorks 2009 (Dallas) I’ll be giving a talk on best practices, standards and tools to help with both in your PHP development: “B,S,T…Easy as 1,2,3″ The other two will be at ZendCon (in San Jose). They’re on two different topics: “Taming the Deployment Beast” - looking at some of the development and deployment practices that can make releasing your code simpler “Right Where You Belong (The PHP Community)” - no… -
DPC 2009 Day 1 - Ibuildings Blog
3 Jul 2009 | 5:18 amAfter my colleague Cal reviewed DPC's tutorial day, it's now my turn to look back at the first real conference day of 2009's Dutch PHP Conference. The day started with a nice movie made by Almer and Norman after which Cal officially opened the Dutch PHP Conference and introduced Andrei Zmievski to do the opening keynote. Andrei gave an outline of developments in PHP including the changes we are going to see in future versions. Closures, namespaces, better garbage collection and a few more things are coming to PHP5.3, but I think this isn't new to most people. I haven't really read a lot on…
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PHP.net news & announcements
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PHP 5.3.0 Released!
30 Jun 2009 | 2:47 amThe PHP development team is proud to announce the immediate release of PHP 5.3.0. This release is a major improvement in the 5.X series, which includes a large number of new features and bug fixes. Some of the key new features include: namespaces, late static binding, closures, optional garbage collection for cyclic references, new extensions (like ext/phar, ext/intl and ext/fileinfo), over 140 bug fixes and much more. For users upgrading from PHP 5.2 there is a migration guide available here, detailing the changes between those releases and PHP 5.3.0. Further details about the PHP 5.3.0… -
PHP'n Rio conference
21 Jun 2009 | 10:45 amThe Rio de Janeiro PHP user group is pleased to announce their first PHP'n Rio conference. It will be held July 3rd, 2009 at the Infnet Institute, in Rio de Janeiro. It is a one day mini conference aimed on providing experienced developers and beginners a chance to learn more about PHP frameworks, web applications built in PHP, and the art of testing code. The keynote speaker is Jan Schneider, who will also talk about the Horde project. In addition, we will have sessions about other frameworks and include a PHP TestFest. PHP'n Rio sessions go from 6-9 pm. Then the PHP TestFest… -
PHP 5.3.0RC4 Release Announcements
19 Jun 2009 | 2:02 amThe PHP development team is proud to announce the fourth release candidate of PHP 5.3.0 (PHP 5.3.0RC4). This RC focuses on bug fixes and stability improvements, and we hope only minimal changes are required for the next candidate or final stable releases. PHP 5.3.0 is a newly developed version of PHP featuring long-awaited features like namespaces, late static binding, closures and much more. Please download and test these release candidates, and report any issues found. A stable release is expected next week . In case of critical issues we will continue producing weekly RCs. Downloads and… -
PHP 5.2.10 Released!
18 Jun 2009 | 3:18 pmThe PHP development team would like to announce the immediate availability of PHP 5.2.10. This release focuses on improving the stability of the PHP 5.2.x branch with over 100 bug fixes, one of which is security related. All users of PHP are encouraged to upgrade to this release. Security Enhancements and Fixes in PHP 5.2.10: Fixed bug #48378 (exif_read_data() segfaults on certain corrupted .jpeg files). (Pierre) Further details about the PHP 5.2.10 release can be found in the release announcement, and the full list of changes are available in the ChangeLog. -
PHP 5.2.10RC2 and PHP 5.3.0RC3 Release Announcements
12 Jun 2009 | 8:39 amThe PHP development team is proud to announce the second release candidate of PHP 5.2.10 (PHP 5.2.10RC2) and the third release candidate of PHP 5.3.0 (PHP 5.3.0RC3). These RCs focuses on bug fixes and stability improvements, and we hope only minimal changes are required for the next candidate or final stable releases. PHP 5.2.10 is a pure maintenance release for providing bugfixes and stability updates. PHP 5.3.0 is a newly developed version of PHP featuring long-awaited features like namespaces, late static binding, closures and much more. Please download and test these release candidates,…
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PHPBuilder.com New Articles
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XHTML: Why You Should Be Using It
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The ABC's of PHP - Part 10 - The Final Installment
In this last installment in our series Peter Shaw ties it all together and shows you how to put the ... -
Advanced String Processing - How Regular Are Your Expressions
This week Peter Shaw shows us the power of regular expressions, the building blocks of PHP, and what ... -
Loops & Decisions in PHP - The ABC's of PHP Part 8
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Latest PHP Classes blog posts
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10th anniversary announcements
25 Jun 2009 | 6:00 am10th anniversary announcements By Manuel Lemos The PHPClasses sites completes 10 years of existence precisely today. This article presents a reflection of the past, present and future developments of the site. It includes the announcement of a contest to pick a new design for the site and an upcoming brother site that will be launched this year. -
PHP standards discussion group opens to the world
2 Jun 2009 | 8:00 amPHP standards discussion group opens to the world By Manuel Lemos A discussion group was formed to define standards to be adopted by PHP frameworks and applications. This article gives an initial overview of what is this group about. -
How large is the PHP market?
13 May 2009 | 4:10 amHow large is the PHP market? By Manuel Lemos Sometimes it is necessary to know how large is the PHP market in the world or in a specific country. It may help, for instance, developers to advocate for PHP, companies to decide for sponsoring PHP events, PHP training, developing of products targeting the PHP developers, or any other initiatives directed to the PHP market. This article presents several sources of information that may help decision makers to invest more in the PHP market. The article also covers the huge popularity of Firefox browser among PHP developers attributing it to the… -
Upcoming PHP 5.3 features and beyond
28 Apr 2009 | 5:55 amUpcoming PHP 5.3 features and beyond By Manuel Lemos PHP 5.3 release candidate 1 was released a few days ago. The final version is expected to be released in the upcoming weeks. This article presents an interview with core PHP developer Lukas Kahwe Smith that has pushed many of the new features of PHP 5.3 as release manager. Lukas talks about PHP 5.3 new features such as lambda functions, closures and PHAR support. He also explains what are traits, which for now it is a feature that was left out of PHP 5.3. He also talks about future PHP 5.x and PHP 6, as well how anybody can help in the… -
Winner of PHP Programming Innovation Award of the year announced
21 Apr 2009 | 11:04 pmWinner of PHP Programming Innovation Award of the year announced By Manuel Lemos The winner of PHP Programming Innovation Award of 2008 was announced. Now there is also a ranking of the innovation award of all time that considers the score of each author since the award started in 2004. There are also new rankings of author countries for each year and all time. Cesar Rodas won the 2008 award. Here he gives an interview telling about many good things that happened since he won last year. He also shares his secrets to contribute so many innovative classes appreciated by the users that voted on…
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blog.phpdeveloper.org
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Speaking in the Fall
3 Jul 2009 | 7:47 pmWith the announcement of the speakers for this year’s Zend/PHP Conference it seems I’ll be giving three talks this fall (in the span of two months): First at CodeWorks 2009 (Dallas) I’ll be giving a talk on best practices, standards and tools to help with both in your PHP development: “B,S,T…Easy as 1,2,3″ The other two will be at ZendCon (in San Jose). They’re on two different topics: “Taming the Deployment Beast” - looking at some of the development and deployment practices that can make releasing your code simpler “Right Where You… -
php|tek & our community
24 May 2009 | 5:33 amThis past week I was fortunate enough to attend this year’s php|tek PHP conference up in Chicago. It was four days packed with some great PHP-related content and included two major events for the PHP community - a “standrds session” and a meeting of several core developers of the language to hash out some standing issues face-to-face. The week saw a nice blend of both sessions related directly to the language an more periphery topics like MySQL tuning, project management and version control systems. In the midst of all of this, there was something else I saw that, I have to… -
Slides for my php|tek talk: “No Really, It’s All About You”
22 May 2009 | 8:29 amI’ve put my slides for my framework presentation from this year’s php|tek conference - “No Really, It’s All About You” comparing CakePHP, CodeIgniter, Solar and the Zend Framework - up on Slideshare: No Really, It's All About You View more PDF documents from ccornutt. Unfortunately, no one was there to record the resulting “discussion” that came from the questions after - heh. -
Working towards a better deployment (Part 4)
5 May 2009 | 7:11 pmI’m back with the fourth part of my look at deployment of PHP applications to focus on the actual deployment technologies. I’ve already talked some about version control, build tools and unit testing in the previous parts of the series and this new information should round it out nicely with a simple approach to the push part of the deployment. As it stands right now, the final step in our deployment is one of the simplest. We have some bash scripts that are aliased to rsync commands for pushing files out to each of our different sites. Since the assumption is that anything… -
Working towards a better deployment (Part 3)
2 May 2009 | 7:50 pmSo, on the to third part of my little series (part one, part two) on making a shiny new deployment system for our sites. What’s that? Yep, I said sites - plural. I’m working all of this up on a “one site” concept, but in reality we have five or six websites that this process will eventually apply to. They’re all pretty similar, thankfully, and all use a lot of the same libraries. This makes the next step of my little process so much easier - the unit testing. If you’re not unit testing your code, drop what you’re doing (well, finish this article at…
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Paul M. Jones
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Had Enough of “Left” and “Right” ?
2 Jul 2009 | 10:26 amWatch a liberal Democrat and a conservative Republican redline the Bill of Rights together: -
“We’re in the Middle of a Crash”: Black Swan
2 Jul 2009 | 10:22 am“You may have green shoots, whatever you want to call them, you may have temporary relief, but you are still in a world that’s breaking,” Taleb said … “We're in the middle of a crash,” Taleb said. “So if I'm going to forecast something, it is that it's going to get worse, not better.” The government needs [...] -
Quick, Spend the Money Before the Taxpayers Find Out!
2 Jul 2009 | 8:59 amByron York catches Barney Frank with his hand in the till. The issue is TARP: recall that the banks that received TARP money are supposed to repay it to the Treasury, along with dividend payments. President Obama has held out hope that the taxpayers may, in the end, make money on the TARP program. Recall, [...] -
Old Media Blues
2 Jul 2009 | 5:32 amThe problem besetting newspapers is not that there are hordes of bloggers giving it away for free. Bloggers are, to be sure, great competition for the op-ed section. But the op-ed section is not a money maker, as the New York Times so painfully discovered with Times Select. As I wrote at [...] -
Girls With Guns Get It
1 Jul 2009 | 7:32 amIn both Iraq and Afghanistan, the U.S. Army and Marines found it useful to send a female soldier along on raids, as it was less disruptive to have a woman search the female civilians. There was no shortage of volunteers for this duty. The marines, as is their custom, saw more opportunities in this. Thus [...]
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joestump.net
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Jailbreak + SIM Unlock + Tethering + MMS on iPhone 3G w/ iPhone OS 3.0
24 Jun 2009 | 1:29 pm!!!WARNING!!! The following post will very likely void your warranty and, quite possibly, completely break your phone. DO NOT DO THIS UNLESS YOU KNOW WHAT YOU’RE DOING! I recently purchased an iPhone 3G for my upcoming trip to Europe with the express purpose of SIM unlocking it. Moving forward this will be my travel phone. When I get back I plan on purchasing an iPhone 3GS to use here in the US. Specifically, I ended up doing the following: Jailbreaking the phone with redsn0w. Doing a SIM unlock with ultrasn0w. Enabling the tethering option. Entering the appropriate settings for MMS. -
What would a Social Platform Bill of Rights look like?
4 Jun 2009 | 1:36 pmNow that I’m getting out of the business of creating and engineering social platforms and into the business of using and building upon social platforms, I’ve been thinking a lot about best practices for all those involved in the development, use and consumption of social platforms. For the last few years some of my most respected friends and colleagues have been busy building the social web. Blaine Cook, Eran Hammer-Lahav, Kevin Marks, Chris Messina, David Recordon, Dave Morin, Luke Shephard and many, many others have been working tirelessly on the nuts and bolts of what… -
Zombies and sheep tossing comes to Twitter
29 May 2009 | 1:38 pmIt was bound to happen sooner or later. Spam-based viral applications, first made popular on Facebook’s platform, have come to Twitter in the form of Spymaster. The #spymaster tag is trending on Twitter’s search right now and, judging by my own stream, a bunch of people are playing it. I’ve started both unfollowing and reporting users of this game to @spam. This isn’t because I hate my friends, it’s because I have no other recourse to stop this application’s abusive behavior. So what makes this so abusive? The game gives money and income boosts the more you… -
Moving on to the next chapter
15 May 2009 | 9:39 amThis week I gave notice to Digg that I’m going to be leaving the company to pursue other opportunities. When I first joined Digg I had a list of goals in my head that I wanted to accomplish and, I feel, they’ve either been accomplished or are well on their way to being fulfilled by other shepherds at Digg. Luckily, we’ve managed to recruit some of the industry’s leading brains (all of whom are far smarter and more capable than I) to continue building great products for Digg and I’m excited to see where they take things. So what’s next? Well, I’m… -
Conservatives want a Divorce from Liberals
8 Mar 2009 | 12:42 pmToday I woke up to an email calling for Conservatives and Liberals to divorce. With this divorce they propose a number of demands about splitting up our mutual assets. Conservatives and Liberals should split the country, by land mass, right down the middle. No method for doing so is outlined in the Conservatives petition. Liberals are to take the liberal judges, the ACLU, the affirmative action crowd, the NAACP, and the National Organization of Women. Liberals are also to take Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid with them. Conservatives want all of the guns, the cops, the NRA, and the military.
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@TheKeyboard
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Brittle Web Services
1 Jul 2009 | 7:40 amHappy Canada Day to all my Canadian friends and readers! For a project at work I’ve been working a lot with web services, creating a new one and tweaking an existing one. That work got me to thinking that not only can you have brittle code, but you can have brittle web services as well. Things like: Dependencies on 3rd-party tools that might force you to send parameters in a certain order (I’m looking at *you*, XSLT tools) Non-intuitive parameters Misleading error responses Poor permission schemes that allow you to access data you shouldn’t I could go on and on, but a lot of… -
Do Androids Dream Of Googlephones?
19 Jun 2009 | 6:24 pmI talked briefly on Twitter about me getting a new phone to replace my beat-up Blackberry. Instead of a new iPhone 3GS, I decided to get the HTC Dream, more commonly known as the G-1 to my American readers. My carrier is Rogers Wireless, so no switching required *or* extending of my term. I had to talk to the right people in customer support, but I got it for the same price that someone who was just signing up for 3 years would get it. So why one of those and not an iPhone. Well, reason number one is that I tend to be a contrarian at times. Everyone has an iPhone, not many people have an… -
The Upcoming Scalable Datastore Singularity
12 Jun 2009 | 12:45 pmI talked about this briefly on Twitter but I am wondering if we are at the edge of an upcoming “singularity” for technologies dealing with really large data sets. Things like CouchDB, Tokyo Cabinet, Cassandra and some other non-RDBM’s datastores that I’m sure I’m forgetting about are starting to filter down from the experimental level to the usable-by-developers-like-me level. We all dream of working on a project that has to deal with highly scalable data sources, because that means the project has been an awesome success. I just wonder if use of these types of… -
A Simple CouchDB Datasource
5 Jun 2009 | 12:55 pmYes, my waffling continues. But this time it is NOT with respect to what editor to use, as the one true editor has been configured in such a way to make my life easier. I have a personal project that I have been waffling about building in Python (first as a Django app, now maybe as a web2py app) or in CakePHP, since I would probably be most productive building out something quickly using it. Since I'm in a CakePHP phase right now, I decided to start building out some of the components I would need to make the side project work. One of those components is the use of CouchDB as the database. -
Book Now Available On Amazon!
26 May 2009 | 6:55 pmI received an email this evening that you can now purchase my book through Amazon.com's Marketplace! Awesome news. Check out the link http://tinyurl.com/p5o79u and be sure to add your feedback to the page if you've bought a copy. (Edit: hrm, link doesn't show up on front page but shows up if you click on the link to this posting...)
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Derick Rethans
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Good bye Norway, Hello London
20 Jun 2009 | 5:32 pmToday, at the longest day of the year at the summer solstice, I am making a bit change to my life. If you're following me on twitter you probably already know what I'm up to. For everybody else, I am going to say good bye to Skien in Norway, and move to London (the one in England, and not the one in Ontario). Norway has been my home for the past five years, and I've had a great time exploring the nature as well as working at our office in Skien. Skien is a nice place, but ... not the most interesting of cities in the world. From today I will be living in London to see what life will bring me… -
Debugging with multiple users
11 Jun 2009 | 1:47 amAs author of Xdebug, people ask me often the question how to handle the case in teams when there is one development server and multiple developers working on the same project on that server. Xdebug only allows you to specify one IP address to connect to (through xdebug.remote_host) while doing remote debugging. It does not automatically connect back to the IP address that runs the browser the request the PHP scripts because of security reasons. You don't want everybody on the Internet to be able to run a debugging session against your code for example. There is no problem if all developers… -
php|architect's Guide to Date and Time Programming
3 Jun 2009 | 12:06 pmIn the past year I've been working on a book, describing PHP's Date and Time functionality in great detail. It's now finally out under the name "php|architect's Guide to Date and Time Programming". Look at the pretty cover! It's actually a picture I took some months ago from the church in Skien, where I am still living (more about that in a later post). The book is devoted on helping you understanding dates and times, as well as how PHP deals with it. It explains how PHP parsers and reads dates and times in strings including possible pitfalls; timezones, their history, the annoyances and how… -
pfcongrez, P2P Конференция, php|tek, PHP Vikinger, DPC and eZ Conference and Awards
9 Apr 2009 | 4:45 pmThe above mentioned conferences all have one thing in common: I'll be speaking. At the first conference, pfcongrez I will be talking on implementing Test Driven Development as a model for software development. A modified version of this talk I will also give at the next conference, P2P Конференция (P2P Conference) in Bulgaria. At this same conference I will be talking on using PHP as development language for GSM based applications on mobile computing platforms running Linux, where I will use the pecl/dbus extension to talk to the interface framework available on the OpenMoko… -
PHP Vikinger 2009
6 Apr 2009 | 4:36 amI'll be organizing PHP Vikinger again this year. It will not be in Norway, but instead we'll be moving to Leuven in Belgium. It will be held on May 30th, very close to Leuven's central station at Café Sport (known from the PHP Belgium meetings). For the full invitation, see the website.
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Evil, as in Dr.
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EvilDesk now on BitBucket
7 Jun 2009 | 9:00 pmI've opened up the code behind EvilDesk, my Windows Shell replacement, and made it available on BitBucket under the terms of the GPLv2. Enjoy! http://bitbucket.org/wez/evildesk/ -
CouchShare now on BitBucket
7 Jun 2009 | 7:56 pmA few of my friends and associates may have heard me talk about the media server I've been running in my basement; I used to automatically transfer content from my tivo to a hard-disk in my basement so that I had more space for recordings on the tivo. Since most of the recordings that I want to keep are now available via Hulu, I haven't had much call to use it in the last 6 months. So, what is CouchShare? It's a UPnP server that can share content from folder to an XBox 360 on your network. It's written in PHP (and requires a tiny PHP extension to enable multicast support) and is written… -
toshiba hotkeys on solaris
7 Jun 2009 | 6:13 pmUpdate: moved code to http://bitbucket.org/wez/toshutils/ Friday evening I sat down and wrote my first piece of solaris kernel code and an associated user-space application that activates the brightness up/down hotkeys for the LCD on my Toshiba Satellite M30. I implemented a tosh_hci driver that can perform Toshiba Hardware Configuration Interface traps via an ioctl(2). This driver is really simple; the hardest part being the intel assembly needed to perform the trap (technically an inb instruction, not a trap). The userspace code is a really slimmed down version of the code that I previously… -
Dead laptop disk == more linux hacking
7 Jun 2009 | 6:09 pmUpdate2: moved code to http://bitbucket.org/wez/toshkey/overview/ Update acpid now handles the brightness controls, displays the battery status in the ps list and emits power warnings once you're down to 15 minutes of power. I've also added a little non-root acpid client that will allow you to run your own stuff in response to hotkey events. I suffered a dead (nearly; it's on its way out) laptop disk almost a week ago, and have been clawing my way back to normality. As a side effect, I now own a Toshiba Satellite M30, which apparently has slightly more linux friendly hardware than my other… -
Whirlwhind review of php|tek 09
24 May 2009 | 12:03 amIt's been a simultaneously long and fast week for me. I flew into Chicago last Sunday, ready for the PHP core developers meeting that we had planned for the Monday and Tuesday. My journey went like a charm; perfect timing had me parked at the airport, immediately on the shuttle bus to the terminal, straight through security and to my gate just in time to start boarding. The only minor hiccough was in finding the shuttle from Chicago to the hotel; it was extremely poorly sign-posted. Anyway, I got to the hotel and ran into the British contingent of the conference, and we eventually found our…
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Sean Coates: PHP, Web (+Beer)
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The Problem with AIR
I have a love-hate relationship with Adobe AIR.On the positive side, AIR allows developers who are primarily experienced in web technologies (such as myself) to apply existing skills to the creation of GUI applications with a minimum of additional deployment-specific competence, and to release those apps on several platforms, in parallel.This shallow learning curve has facilitated the creation of GUI apps that would never have otherwise graduated beyond a passing thought by their creators.A good example of this is Spaz, my currently-preferred interface to the Twitter. Ed, its author, and my… -
Seven Things
I was also going to skip over this Seven Things meme. I actually think the idea is a good one—always fun to learn new and often strange things about friends/colleagues—but I lost patience when I opened up my feed reader one morning and Planet PHP was overrun with Seventy Things about ten people I don't know. So, I'm intentionally not tagging this PHP so it doesn't show up in the feed. Call me a grumpy old man if you like. (-:I'm also going to forgo tagging seven others. Nearly everyone I'd tag has already been pressured. You might know that I'm a bit of a beer aficionado, and that I brew… -
Recent Happenings
I've got a bunch of stuff that I haven't found/made time to blog about, so just dropping some quick notes here: I've been invited to speak at PHP Quebec 2009. I've been to this conference a few times (but not for a couple years, now), and I'm really looking forward to getting back into the conference circuit (as a speaker, not an organizer... think of all the free time I'll have! (-; Anyway, I'll be giving a talk entitled "Stupid Browser Tricks" in which I'll talk (at a high level) about Firebug, and Selenium IDE, and possibly a few other things like granular browser security, komodo… -
UTF: WTF?
Note: This article first ran in php|architect in March 2008, while I still worked at MTA. Marco (the publisher, and my former colleague) has graciously agreed to allow me to republish this in a more public forum. I've wanted to link a few people to it in the past few months and until now that was only possible if they were php|architect subscribers. That said, if you're into PHP, you really should subscribe to php|a.As you might know, one of my roles at php|architect is to organize and manage speakers (and their talks) for our PHP conferences.A while back, PHP 6's main proponent, Andrei… -
More Web of Trust Thoughts
A while back, I blogged about trust on the web, and how there are a lot of assumptions made by content providers that simply don't carry over to end users, or are just a small (but important) step from being good practices.Yesterday, at $work, we were talking about something that lead to a discussion on SSL, and how I think (hypocritically since the domain you're reading right now isn't even available on https://) that most sites, even if they don't contain sensitive information should be available by https—even if the certificate is self-signed.Chris respectfully (I think (-; ) disagreed…
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Lot 49: Greg Beaver's blog
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How to manage all that noise? Where PHP development and chamber music rehearsal meet
28 Jun 2009 | 5:54 pmLately, there have been many well-intentioned but I would contend misguided ideas proposed to handle noise on public programmer mailing lists. The premise is that in fact there are very important messages being drowned out in a chorus of irrelevant messages from ill-informed developers. Warnings of inefficiencies have been tossed about quite a bit as the curse of "bike shedding."To understand what they mean by "bike shedding," one must know the bike shed parable. Once upon a time, a group of people got together to build a nuclear reactor to power the city. Everyone…
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Sugar Developer Blog
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Adding/Modifying the Shortcuts Menu
29 Jun 2009 | 7:42 amAdding/Modifying the Shortcuts Menu Suppose you want to modify the Opportunities Shortcuts menu to add a shortcut to create a new Lead (not tied to the existing opportunity). Create a custom file called: /custom/Extension/modules/Opportunities/Ext/Menus/CustomMenu.php The filename is not very important. Add the following contents: <?php if(ACLController::checkAccess(’Leads’, ‘edit’, true))$module_menu[]=Array(”index.php?module=Leads&action=EditView&return_module=Opportunities&return_action=ListView”, “New From Canvass… -
IIS FastCGI support in Sugar 5.5
11 Jun 2009 | 7:50 amOne of the most exciting features for those deploying Sugar on Windows stacks is the offical support for the new IIS/FastCGI support of PHP. This promises to bring great performance and stability boosts as compared to using the previous ISAPI method of using PHP. What is FastCGI? There has for sometime been two popular ways of using PHP with Microsoft’s IIS ( Internet Information Server ); either you could use the ISAPI hook which runs PHP in the same process as IIS, or CGI support which runs it in a seperate process. Both approaches had thier drawbacks; running PHP in ISAPI mode… -
SugarForge 2.0?
8 Jun 2009 | 12:38 pmI’ve been thinking a lot lately on how you (the developer community) and SugarCRM can work closer together. We’ve come up with a few ideas that we’re working on here at Sugar. For starters, I want to revamp SugarForge. There are some features that I want and they do not currently exist. My inspiration has come from sites I have been using lately - GitHub, BitBucket, and LaunchPad. I have also been playing with Trac a lot. What all of these have in common is excellent source control and wikis. I also particularly like the project management & issue tracking… -
Sugar 5.5 Beta is here
28 May 2009 | 10:55 amNote: Upgrade files from Sugar 5.5 Beta to any later release will not be provided. Therefore, we recommend that you upgrade a copy of your production Sugar system for testing purposes only. There are some great new features for developers in 5.5. I think that there are two big key features for developers are the REST API Themes framework I haven’t had a chance to hack on the REST api, but I gave it a quick review. Since we’re just introducing it, right now is the perfect time to help influence it’s developement, submit fixes, etc. Please, let use know what you think. -
Sugar’s Open Cloud - What Does It Mean?
20 May 2009 | 2:31 pmIn short, the SugarCRM Open Cloud is the evolution of Sugar’s commitment to empower their customers with choice and flexibility. Matt Asay recently posted commentary on Tim O’Reilly’s poignant thoughts on Cloud Computing that goes a little something like this: Don’t be fooled, cloud computing is a way to keep things proprietary. The open source community made so much progress in the past decade getting software with open source licenses into business’s products and IT solutions. But just when you thought your software was becoming open and standards compliant,…
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Zend Developer Zone
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Contest: Free ZendCon Passes for User Groups!
30 Jun 2009 | 9:41 amZend and S&S support local PHP user groups, and will be providing a limited number of free ZendCon passes for user groups to distribute to active members who might not have the financial wherewithal otherwise. -
PHP 5.3 released
30 Jun 2009 | 7:41 amThe long awaited release of PHP 5.3 is finally here! Bask in the glory of all the new enhancements and go download it to start using it today! -
Community News: PHP Group Responds to Google's "Speed Tips" Recommendations
29 Jun 2009 | 12:33 pmRight along with some of the other posts about the "best practices" that Google ">recently post , the PHP group has also responded to dispel some of the recommendations Google gives. -
Accepting Credit Card Payments with OXID eShop CE and Authorize.Net
26 Jun 2009 | 7:57 amThe OXID shopping cart is built on an extensible, object-oriented PHP/MySQL architecture that makes it easy to "plug in" new modules and functions. One common function involves integration with third-party payment gateways, and the OXID platform provides various developer hooks to assist in this task. This article shows you how to begin accepting credit card payments for your products by writing a custom PHP module that reads credit card information from an OXID order basket and performs payment transactions using the Authorize.Net payment gateway. -
Using Apache2 ITK Multi-Processing Module on Linux
25 Jun 2009 | 10:07 amThose familiar with configuring Apache and PHP to run together, have been introduced to the idea of Apache’s Multi-Processing Modules ( MPM ). Basically Apache2 allows you to use different methodologies in how it manages the various connections coming in. One of the more efficient methods uses threads; however, when running PHP you’ve been restricted to using the prefork MPM module since some extensions are not written in a way that will enable work in thread safe mode.
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PHP Archives
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How to set up PHP 5 with Curl and MySQL support on Windows
26 Jun 2009 | 11:23 pmYou have to go through a lot of hoops to get CuRL working on Windows. I decided to put up a list that I could refer back to if I ever needed to re-install PHP and Curl on my windows box. Note: Apparently it is much easier to install Curl on Linux. I'll admit I havent tried it, but if you are trying to decide between the two, that is one thing to consider.Note: I'm assuming you already have Apache installed.. you're going to need it.1. Back up your original PHP directory (if any) from C:/Program Files/PHP to C:/Program Files/PHP_orig2. Download the latest PHP 5 binaries from… -
How to get Apache 2.x.x, PHP5, and MySQL 5 to work together seamlessly
7 Feb 2009 | 9:08 amThis will get you up and running with Apache 2.x.x, PHP5, and MySQL 5 on a windows environment. I will assume you will be using Binary installations for Apache, PHP and MySQL, because those are the most convenient. If you are on a Unix/Linux system and know how to compile from source, this article may still help you configure Apache, PHP and MySQL and make them work together seamlessly.1. First, install Apache 2.2.x from http://httpd.apache.org/Choose the latest STABLE release in binary format if you are on windows.After the installation process, start the Apache service and go to… -
Uploading large(big) files in PHP using .htaccess
17 Nov 2008 | 10:08 amMany people struggle with the uploads of large files in PHP. After looking at their struggle, i'm here to solve this problem. Most web servers are configured such that a user can only upload a maximum file size of 2MB. You can increase that maximum upload file size limit by using the .htaccess file. Here's how to do it: 1) Create a .htaccess file in the root folder of the web server. 2) Put the following code inside the .htaccess file and save it. php_value upload_max_filesize 20M php_value post_max_size 20M php_value max_execution_time 200 php_value max_input_time 200 Now you can upload… -
Top PHP Security Blunders
17 Nov 2008 | 10:02 am(original article is at http://www.sitepoint.com/article/php-security-blunders/) PHP is a terrific language for the rapid development of dynamic Websites. It also has many features that are friendly to beginning programmers, such as the fact that it doesn't require variable declarations. However, many of these features can lead a programmer inadvertently to allow security holes to creep into a Web application. The popular security mailing lists teem with notes of flaws identified in PHP applications, but PHP can be as secure as any other language once you understand the basic types of flaws… -
PHP and AJAX Poll
10 Oct 2008 | 1:23 pmPHP and AJAX PollA good example of an Ajax Poll courtesy of w3schools. AJAX Suggest In the AJAX example below we will demonstrate a poll where the web page can get the result without reloading. Do you like PHP and AJAX so far? Yes: No: This example consists of four pages: a simple HTML form a JavaScript a PHP page a text file to store the results The HTML Form This is the HTML page. It contains a simple HTML form and a link to a JavaScript: <html> <head> <script src="poll.js"></script> </head> <body> <div id="poll"> <h2>Do you like PHP and AJAX so far?</h2>…
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PHP and Web development blogs
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Get your own cloud server running in 15 minutes
29 Jun 2009 | 1:17 amThis article uses Amazon EC2 and does not require any additional software installed on your machine to get your own cloud instance running other than your browser. To further configure your instance once it is running you will need Putty or an RDP client depending on your server instance. Amazon EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud) is a service by Amazon which lets anyone create, launch, and terminate server instances as needed, paying by the hour for active servers, hence the term “elastic”. The service starts as low as 0.11$ per hour. For this article an instance of LAMP server and a… -
Rise of Javascript
16 Jun 2009 | 9:00 amSince its birth in 1994, Javascript has come a long way. Today it is one of the most popular programming languages on the web. Javascript has been on the rise and is growing faster since AJAX based applications reignited professional developer interest. It is now possible to it to write applications on the server, the mobile devices, on the browsers (add ons and plugins), inside PDF documents, even in some remote controls and many more to come. Javascript application development in Mobile devices Build Native Applications using Javascript Palm’s new OS is the first mobile platform to… -
Javascript Gotchas listed to help avoid mistakes
21 May 2009 | 8:53 amA gotcha in programming is something unexpected although a documented feature of a computer system and not a bug. These gotchas throw beginners off Javascript programming and send some people running and screaming. In my opinion, Javascript is one of the most widespread languages as it is available on all browsers but one of the least learned languages. Let’s start with basic ones. 1. Floating point arithmetic This can be a major cause of frustration for people who are new to Javascript and are trying to perform some kind of mathematical computation. <script> alert(0.02 /… -
Understanding FTP using raw FTP commands and telnet
5 May 2009 | 5:48 amBoth FTP and SMTP are simple text based protocols. A previous article showed how to check if an email address exists using SMTP commands from the terminal. Here I would like to show you how you can use raw FTP commands to connect to an FTP server, login, traverse directories and even download files. But before we do this we need to understand how FTP is different from the other protocols. Firstly FTP (File Transfer Protocol) uses two channels, the data channel and the control channel. This is called out-of-band control. The control channel sends commands to the FTP server and the data… -
Run PHP on the Google App Engine
13 Apr 2009 | 3:25 pmGoogle launched their Google App Engine (GAE) a year ago. The free hosting in App Engine is allocated 500 MB of persistent storage and enough CPU and bandwidth for about 5 million page views a month. Also, if you really want more you can see pricing plans. GAE will support Java going forward. Unfortunately PHP support on the App Engine is still left as the top item in the wishlist. So until Google announces their official PHP support we have a workaround to run PHP using Quercus. Quercus is basically a 100% Java implementation of the PHP language (requires JDK 1.5). Since the App Engine…
