PHP

Name My Baby

I couldn’t resist. Here is your opportunity to generate names for my child that will give him or her the initials PHP. [Update: I broke it by turning on archiving in the blog and am too lazy to fix it. But the source (below) still works. Honest]

PHPeake?

Just a quick note to say that since announcing my news recently, a rather irreverent post has emerged recommending I name the child Phil Horatio, or Patrick Henry, or Paige Henrietta–anything, really, to ensure the child ends up with the initials PHP. Pretty funny stuff.

Design Patterns Coming Soon

I just finished part one of a two part series I am writing for PHP Magazine about design patterns. In it, I cover a variety of useful patterns that can make your PHP code more flexible and make you more able to adapt it to real-world changes.

Why Oracle?

A recent article asks the same question I have asked on my own blog: “Why PHP?“–but this time, from the angle of an Oracle developer. One of the major conclusions the author makes is that, “it’s not about Oracle programmers choosing a new language; adding PHP is meant to bring more developers to Oracle. Open …

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Net_Monitor Now Growls

Net_Monitor now supports the latest release of Net_Growl (announced yesterday). Growl is an attractive global notification and alert system for OS X. Versions 0.7 and above support remote messaging via UDP, which makes this yet another useful way to receive alerts from the Net_Monitor package about the status of many common services it can monitor. …

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