I’ve put together a small page with some notes which have helped me during my recent set up of phpUnderControl.  I will probably add more to the list in the coming weeks, but these are a couple stumbling blocks I hit the past few days.  If you’re not using phpUnderControl, you owe it to yourself [...]

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TechCrunch has a story on a recently funded Facebook app which, frankly, seems stupid.  Buying and selling ‘friends’ as ‘pets’.  People have already sold me somehow on Facebook, and I just ignore it.  I don’t get it.  I thought MySpace was the place for stupid/flitty ideas, but it seems Facebook is moving in that direction, [...]

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Nathan from onWired (a local web company) gave a presentation on jQuery, which has repiqued my interest in it. The docs were always a shortcoming, but Aptana has had scriptdoc support for jQuery for awhile now. I think if I need to do more AJAXy stuff, I’ll try jQuery for my next project. [...]

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I’ve been taking on a lot of small projects lately, and have been noticing the same problems over and over.  I’ve seen these for years, but I’ve dealt with far more projects in a short time than I ever did in the past.
The checklist below wouldn’t necessarily determine if I’d take a project or not, [...]

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I started a small ‘quick fix’ project for a client the other day.  He had outsourced development of a small ecommerce site to a company in India.  He had originally outsourced (via guru I think) the design to someone in Brazil and had good results, so then outsourced again, and has been burned so bad [...]

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Tonight I met someone from a (largish) local company and learned they’re migrating their search functionality to SOLR.  This is the second largish company in the area I know that’s migrating to SOLR.  I’m not naming names only because I’m not sure they’d want me to do so.  Suffice it to say these are names [...]

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Wow - it looks like the PHP team now has a wiki which will be used to help map out development issues - planned features and such.  This has been a long time coming and I’m glad to see it in place.  I hope it will continue to help open up the development process to [...]

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This is an example of the audiblab system for recording and embedding your voice messages.
Visit audiblab.com to try it out yourself…

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These deserves more than a twitter…
1. I just got my copy of Scott Davis’ “Groovy Recipes” book - I’ll be posting a review as soon as a I can. First impression is about a 8.5 out of 10.
2. Just came across this -> http://froth-and-java.blogspot.com/2007/06/html-screen-scraping-with-groovy.html <- didn’t know about [...]

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Perhaps I’m completely alone in this, but I don’t always commit every single change I make when I make it. A recent project has me chasing down a series of nested problems, and when it’s finally ‘fixed’, I have numerous changes in files that don’t necessarily relate to each other. For example, in [...]

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