I currently find myself with a client who owes a substantial amount of money (over $8000) and I’m at a bit of a loss over how to approach collecting on this debt.  Emails and phone calls have not worked so far.  This was billed over two invoices, and the first invoice is now five weeks [...]

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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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I didn’t want to steal the title “Is your MVC MIA when it comes to 404s?“, cause it’s just too good to plagiarize.  My brother’s written a post that he’s looking for some feedback on.
Excerpt:
Usually, a request into a PHP framework is something like this
example.com/some/thing
… which gets re-written by mod_rewrite into
example.com/index.php/some/thing
The [...]

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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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Two evenings ago I wrote a post about browsers still not having upload progress meters.  The blog post was voted up on reddit, and the server got slammed.  So slammed, in fact, that it was unusable for a few hours while I investigated the problem.  I didn’t know the post was on reddit, but I [...]

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It’s 2008.
Firefox 3 was just released - years of work, thousands of bugs fixed, new features thrown in.  No file upload progress meter.
IE7’s been out for awhile, but I don’t have a copy here handy to test.  My memory is telling me it doesn’t have one, or if it does, its very unobtrusive and not [...]

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Can I do it?  I don’t know for certain, but I’m going to give it a try.  This might replace my ‘run a marathon’ ‘new year resolution”, as it’s more attainable, and I need to take things a step at a time (no pun intended).
A few days ago I was invited to join some other [...]

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My brother Mark has put together a comparison of addslashes() alternatives over at his blog.  He starts off with:
I’ve seen a lot of people talking about mysql_real_escape_string() vs addslashes() vs addcslashes(). There seems to be a lot of real confusion about what these functions do (even with the php.net manual around), especially when it comes [...]

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I’m starting a new series today over at http://phpjobbook.com which will cover a number of job boards that are useful to PHP developers (in other words, they have listings for PHP jobs).  If you’ve got a favorite job board you’ve used with good results, let me know!
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