Monday, July 30th, 2007
Like Scott, I spent last week in Portland attending OSCON. The first session I went to was a joint talk given by Rasmus Lerdorf and Thomas Sha. Rasmus is a Yahoo! software architect and the creator of PHP. Thomas is the head of YUI development. They spoke about strategies for ...
Monday, June 25th, 2007
Nick Halstead is running a PHP contest on his blog and offering a free copy of Zend Studio to the winner. It’s a wonderfully simple challenge that doesn’t require arcane PHP knowledge or experience with any particular framework. Instead, you’re forced to rely on your own problem solving skills. Entries ...
Thursday, April 26th, 2007
In my last post I talked about the PHP Growl notification class I wrote. A few readers emailed and asked to see a larger, working example of how to use the code, so I’ve written a plugin for Shaun Inman‘s popular Mint software. Growl Pepper will notify you whenever certain ...
Thursday, April 26th, 2007
Most websites have alert systems built in that can notify you whenever something goes wrong – a database crash or Apache error for example. Often times they’ll send an email, save the problem to a log file, or even send an instant message. I’ve seen some systems that will page ...
Wednesday, April 18th, 2007
Tired of processing RSS/Atom feeds in your app? Today Google announced their new Google AJAX Feed API that will do the parsing (and caching!) for you. It works great for Javascript developers, but what if you want to use a server side language like PHP? Here’s a quick (and totally ...
Monday, February 19th, 2007
Last month I blogged about the release of PHP-AWS – our open source Amazon Web Services library. Today I want to highlight the S3 File Manager I recently added to the project. It makes debugging your S3 code much easier. Not only does it let you browse your bucket contents, ...
Tuesday, January 30th, 2007
Today I’m happy to announce a new open source project from Sitening. PHP-AWS is a collection of PHP classes that let you tap into the power of Amazon’s Web Services platform. This is the same codebase we used to build Basejumpr. It lets us offer our users unlimited storage space ...
Thursday, June 1st, 2006
It’s no secret that I don’t like Ruby on Rails. My friends know it. My co-workers definitely know it. And I guess now you do, too. Ruby itself is a fine language, and there are lots of great web apps running on Rails, but the framework just doesn’t fit with ...
Wednesday, May 24th, 2006
Here’s a quick tip that might save the PHP developers out there some time. (It would have saved me thirty minutes of debugging if I had know this earlier.) When you export an Excel file as a CSV in Office for Mac, Excel saves the file using CR line breaks ...
Wednesday, February 22nd, 2006
Here's an easy javascript tip that'll make looking up PHP functiosn even faster.