I really like PHP as a technology, both for its extensibility and its deployment style. I think it is the quickest and most straightforward platform to create web applications with, and frameworks like CodeIgniter make it even better.
I’ve long been on the fence regarding PHP’s type coercion and comparison issues, but a recent bug [...]
I’ve just reached the 1000 commit milestone as recorded by my Ohloh profile. By far, most of them are related to my work on the MantisBT project and associated plugins.
Now if only I could find a job local to Cincinnati… If you are interested in hiring me, or know someone who’s looking for [...]
Chris Dornfeld at Unitz has an excellent, detailed overview of the options available when importing Subversion repositories into MantisBT using my Source Integration framework. My previous article on the topic fails to go into particulars with SVN repositories, mainly because many of the options weren’t even dreamed of at the time, let alone implemented.
Anyways, [...]
From HN:
The Good King Lisp raised his glass and toasted with the Knights of Lambda, “To much recursion!”
What’s twenty-four?
Six by four
Eight by three
Twelve by two
Six past legal
Three past drinking
One before cheap insurance
Space Shuttle Discovery
SLR cameras
Nifty.
Since I’m about to present the topic, I’m making the presentation slides available for all. There will indeed be video of the talk, which I will post as soon I can afterwards.
The slides are hosted directly on Google Docs: http://docs.google.com/Presentation?id=dffhxmhs_1273ct3kc8
Context: BarCamp Rochester — Anyone and everyone is invited to attend, and everyone is highly encouraged to present something of their own, no matter what it is. It’s happening this weekend at RIT, where I’m studying (and graduating in about a month!) for Software Engineering.
I’ll be attending it to give a presentation on MantisBT [...]
Thank you Explosm, you’ve just made my day!
Merry Christmas everyone, happy holidays, and a happy New Year. Cheers!
As a well-seasoned PHP developer for MantisBT and other projects, but at the same time a seasoned developer in Python, C++, Lua, etc, I found this interesting article on Hacker News, Yet, a short piece on the “history” and development of PHP as a language.
A few choice quotes that I most enjoyed:
I don’t know anyone [...]
