Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has. -Margaret Mead For awhile now, I have been using the open source libgaim-based Adium alongside Defaultware’s shareware Proteus. While both offer connectivity to all the major instant messaging services, it is clear …
Just a quick post to say that this blog is now running Serendipity 0.8. The upgrade path was frought with disaster after disaster, much of which David Rolston helped steer me though. Ultimately, though, it came down to the default version of PHP that ships with Debian being incompatible with Serendipity 0.8. Furthermore, to hear …
Following up on a recent post explaining why PHP works in the Enterprise, I thought it might be equally useful to lay out the common concerns I have heard over the years from programming shops trying to make the case against PHP and for another web development platform. Here are a few off the top …
Having ploughed through writing my upcoming article for PHP Magazine on “Farming PHP” I am still motivated to think deeply about PHP in the enterprise and, specifically, under high volumes of web traffic. Having come through several industries in a variety of capacities where PHP is being used effectively for business-critical operations, I am used …
“Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And when you look long into an abyss, the abyss also looks into you.” -Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche I was browsing through the Computer section of a major bookseller when I came across a book on hacking techniques endorsed …
Issue 03.05 of International PHP Magazine is out, featuring my article on, “Enterprise PHP Coding Standards.” This topic seems to have sparked considerable interest from my previous entries (here, here, here, and here) and the teaser article available on the IPM site. This issue should hit newsstands in Europe today, and is available overseas to …
