We’re having tornadoes in the area tonight.  Well, I think so, anyway.  I read about ‘warnings’ and ‘watches’ and for the life of me can not quite remember which is which.  I have not been able to remember this distinction *EVER*.  I remember in first grade having trouble keeping them straight, it’s not gotten better [...]

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In the religion and language survey,first written about here, we’ve already got 2800 entries in less than 24 hours.  I’d like to leave this open for at least another week, but am also interested in working with some of you out there to parse the data and come up with some reports.  If you’ve got [...]

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I’ve put up a small survey which I’m hoping will help me get an idea of whether there’s any connection between computer language choice and religious identification.  Do Catholics gravitate towards Java?  Are Python users more likely to be Baptist?  It’s basically a ‘fun’ thing – I don’t claim it’ll be scientific, but I’m still [...]

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I’m working on a series of articles aimed at explaining the Grails Java framework to people with a non-Java background. The comparisons I plan to make will be mostly to PHP, cause that’s what I’m most familiar with, though there may be some other comparisons from time to time. This is a work [...]

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I’ve been using different editors for PHP work over the years.  From Notepad, UltraEdit and PFE on Windows to Scite, QuantaPlus, Kate and others on Linux, most have never been more than glorified text editors.  Having earlier come from VB environments years before, it was a bit sparse to say the least.  The early Zend [...]

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I saw these two blog posts around the web recently and thought I’d add my two cents.  The core question is “why haven’t you upgraded to php5?”.  I worked at a company that was using PHP5, and also have PHP4 running on my ‘personal’ server which hosts some side projects and a few former clients.  [...]

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I’m attending the caffienated php session – this will demonstrate the java/php bridge. This is put on by Kevin Schroeder from Zend.
Kevin started off by giving a rundown of Zend – products, services, etc. No mention of ZendFramework project (yet?).
Why use PHP and Java together? PHP is easier for most tasks, and [...]

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Java 6 was released last week (or was it two weeks ago) to, in my view, surprisingly little fanfare. It may be the circles I travel in now, but it just wasn’t seen as that big of a deal with most people I know, nor with many tech sites I visit. From what [...]

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I’m here at PHP Appalachia and have learned some interesting things.
SimpleXML has recently added some support for adding children and attribtues directly to a document.  There may be little or no need to turn a document into a DOM object for many people’s purposes.
We talked a bit about RSS, and I brought up the awesome [...]

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Adam Williams, creator of the sails framework, posted an interesting piece on choice of language.  The basic premise is something I think most developers probably already know – choice of language isn’t really that important – but it was good to see it being said yet again.  That it was taken from a Ruby proponent, [...]

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