I’ve been exchanging some emails with my good friend Bobby Freeman. We’ve been discussing some copy and design for a new project I’ve launched, and am looking to share with the rest of the world. He pointed me to the best web design guide ever. I’d like to share it with all of you, I have… Read more »
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Being Lean by accident, in 5th grade.
When I was growing up in India, we had to take “computer programming” courses in 5th grade. At that time they taught us a language called Logo . Making a turtle draw concentric circles was easy, so my friends and I figured out how to get out of what was then an IDE, into qbasic so… Read more »
HipHop for PHP is not for you 60% of the time, everytime.
My apologies to Ron Burgundy for the title of the post, but I’m just a fan of the wisest man to ever live. As Marco and Illia and countless others have said, unless you don’t work with PHP or were in a coma, Facebook released HipHop for PHP , it’s open source, it’s awesome, it… Read more »
Managing WordPress and other PHP projects with Ruby
The past month or so has given us a lot of blog posts on how, and why we should use automated build and deploy systems. One of the best deployment systems out there (imho), is by the Ruby community, and it’s called Capistrano. We’ve been using it internally since this summer to manage and deploy… Read more »
You have no clue. Or, "Release Early, Release Often" in laymen's terms.
I don’t have much to add to this, this just a great post. It explains the ‘release early, release often’ mantra very well. As an entrepreneur who’s busy building/fine tuning and releasing his own application to the world, this is a great refresher. I don’t know what I’m doing, the past 4 months lay out… Read more »
URLs or URis, What's the difference?
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!
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?
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 »
Building PHP 5.3 packages on Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty) for Apache 2
Goal: Build a PHP 5.3 package, that I can install and upgrade on new ubuntu slices as needed, without having to compile on each box. This is an amalgamation of different blog posts that did certain things really well, but not everything I wanted. The post I refer to specifically Installing PHP 5.3 on Ubuntu… Read more »
Talking to multiple databases with Symfony 1.2
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 »
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