URLs or URis, What's the difference?

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A lot of people confuse the terms URLs and URIs. This morning, the PHP Advent post by David Sklar exemplified that. Paul Reinheimer already has a rebuttal for this, and I’m expecting many more. I agree with Paul, David seems to be missing the point. URI: Uniform Resource Identifier/Indicator URL: Uniform Resource Locator The keyword… Read more »

Internets on a plane!

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I was trying come up with something along the lines of Snakes on a plane..I failed.. but still.. this post comes to you from 24,000 feet in the air. Courtesy of Gogo inflight, that provides Wifi in the air . Speedtest.net shows a 2mb download with a decent 512k upload. This is pretty cool, as… Read more »

iStockPhoto Logos validates Brandstack marketplace?

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A new concept for iStockPhoto called iStockPhoto Logos has been announced as a direct competitor to Brandstack. Will iStockPhoto Logos fail again? Techcrunch just announced iStockPhoto Logos? . It seems this is a great idea that was pioneered by Brandstack. The concept both sites have is very similar, in that they both sell logos, but… Read more »

Talking to multiple databases with Symfony 1.2

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Notes on using Symfony with multiple databases. I’m building a new application in symfony, and I need to use some data from an existing application written by another developer. I can’t just extend the existing application for reasons we don’t need to get into, but I do need to interface with the data, since the… Read more »