I’ve putzed around with it before, went through some example code, etc., but yesterday picked up the “Programming Erlang” book from Pragmatic Programmers.  Might still return it if its too dense, but doesn’t seem to be so far.
The biggest takeaway I have is that Erlang is good for concurrent programming because of it’s ’shared nothing’ [...]

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I was looking at hosting provider mosso.com this morning.  No particular reason - just saw an ad and clicked on it to poke around.  The pricing seemed reasonable, but because mosso is a ‘cloud computing’ sort of provider, I dug a bit further.  You’re charge $100/month for “10,000 compute cycles”.  Seemed a bit nebulous, so [...]

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What?  Another URL redirection service?  What’s the point?  Well, there’s a couple of points.
1) I hadn’t done one yet, and it looked like a simple yet difficult enough challenge to get me thinking about coding again.
2) I didn’t see anything that offered usage statistics.  I tried one that claimed to offer them, but it appeared [...]

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I have to admit, I’ve never been in to ColdFusion.  I used it on a couple small projects back in the early 2000s (was just brought in to finish/fix existing code), but never really dug it.  Not that it was *bad*, but the early versions really smacked of watered-down development.  Everything’s a “tag”, so it’s [...]

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Exciting news - I’ll be presenting an introduction to Grails at the upcoming Codestock conference in Knoxville this August!  The site doesn’t have full details yet, but I was just notified this morning that my submission was accepted.  I’d actually submitted 3 options - my SOLR presentation, a “Continuous Integration with PHP” topic, and an [...]

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This is probably going to make me look dumb, but that’s never stopped me from posting before.  Was reading another article this morning about how Twitter’s been down *again*, which got me to thinking about other options, then to think more about the technical hurdles facing Twitter.  One thing I’ve read a few places is [...]

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So, tomorrow (technically *today* in Australia!) is the date for PDF delivery of my brother’s new book - the PHP Architect’s Guide to Programming with Magento (I think that’s the full title).  More details here.  I’m really excited for him, as I know he put a lot of work over the past several months learning [...]

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I’ve got a small Grails project I started some time ago which I’ll announce here in case anyone is interested in helping or just using it as a base.  GrailsKit is intended to be a small starter kit for Grails projects that need web-based management of user accounts, self-registration, and basic page/controller authentication.  None of [...]

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This is the last in my MySQL conference series.  Brian Moon, author of Phorum and Sr Developer at Dealnews.com, sat down and gave a recap of his two presentations.  We have here nearly a full hour of his insights in to PHP/MySQL scalability, both with an app like Phorum and a more complex environment like [...]

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I’ve been meaning to do this some time, and finally found the time to do it - jobs.webdevradio.com is up and functional (though quite empty at this point!) One of the things I mentioned on my podcast (webdevradio.com) one more than one occasion is that I tend to attract recruiters. Rather than just [...]

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