Archive for September, 2008

ZendCon08 Wrapup

So I kinda had a thing going about blogging during ZendCon but lost it, so I might as well just do a single day wrap up. So ZendCon turned out to be completely worth it, even if only for the chance to meet in person a lot of the core PHP community and then drink [...]

refreshBCS October 1st

Since it isn’t up on refreshbcs.org yet I’ll repost the announcement from the listserv: Where: Murphy’s Law (upstairs) [Google Map] When: October 1st 7PM (Happy Hour starting at 5) Speaker: Michelle Greer We’ve been quiet for a while but it’s time to get this show back on the road. We’ve got several months worth of [...]

Ruby on FAILS

Spoon is both a gentleman AND a scholar. (And caseysoftware is awesome for the pic)

ZendCon08 Day 1 Wrap Up

Turned out to be a fairly exciting day. I woke up late wondering why my alarms didn’t go off, just barely got to lunch and regretted missing Jay Pipes‘ talk. Sara Golemon gave an interesting introduction to PHP extension writing. I bow to her vastly superior C-fu. I already discussed a few talks that I [...]

ZendCon08 Day 1 – The Knight Rider Methodology to Software Development

Eli White gave a talk called “The Knight Rider Methodology to Software Development”. He compares software development methodologies to the old TV show Knight Rider, in that the main character, Michael Knight, was average and ordinary except for the fact that he had an applicable toolset for what he needed to do (KITT). Eli talks [...]

ZendCon08 Day 1 – PECL Picks

Elizabeth Smith discussed to a really interesting PECL extension, pecl_http. I can do request pooling! She also discussed pdo_user that allows you to create PDO drivers in userland (PHP). Good overview on PECL packages. It makes me sad that they have really cool extensions like the operator overload extension and I can use them because [...]

ImagePlane and some simple OOP designs

At Net Perspective we created an image editor in flash that we just released for sale called ImagePlane. While ImagePlane has already been creatively introduced and documented quite thoroughly, I wanted to go over some decisions concerning the PHP demo. Currently ImagePlane posts saved data to URL via the HTTP POST method. Currently ImagePlane posts [...]

Weird errors and XDebug to save the day!

I had an interesting (and by interesting I mean completely mindbogglingly frustrating) error that I cannot summarize. To start things off I notice to my dismay visiting a specific page on my website would result in a white screen (as would be expected for a fatal PHP error with error_reporting turned off). Problem is I [...]

Desired Hearts T-Shirts – The ‘Unboxing’ Experience Comes To Fashion

So some friends of mine started talking up a new website/company some guy brought to them to work on. Basically it was a Threadless clone but far more upscale, better designs, and socially conscious. They named this experiment “Desired Hearts“. After seeing a few preliminary screen shots and some pictures of the packaging from Roby [...]

SVN Client Too Old (In Ubuntu)?

After upgrading to Subclipse 1.4.0 on my Ubuntu 8.04 laptop, I would try to go in and use the console to update some of my projects. Unfortunately, Ubuntu’s Hardy repos don’t have Subversion 1.5 so I got this message: svn: This client is too old to work with working copy ‘.’; please get a newer [...]