Just had an interesting conversation with Morgan from SaysMe.tv, and newly launched… um… service.  I paused there cause I’m not really sure what to call it.  Advertising ASP?  Are ASPs fashionable anymore?  In any event, the service looks very interesting, though limited right now to political fodder due to the primaries and election season.  I [...]

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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 had a chance to catch up with the Symfony guys at the MySQL User Conference a few days ago.  We get some background on the Symfony project, and a glimpse as to where things are going in the near future.
This was my first ‘from the floor’ recording - I think the levels are *OK*, [...]

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I’m seeing a large cross section of age groups represented at the MySQL conference.  The typical late teens through mid twenties are here, as expected, but I’m seeing a high number of people who are clearly older than that - many likely mid 40s or higher.  It could just be that database work is typically [...]

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Listening to Joe Stump from Digg.com talk about SOA and MySQL and some PHP.  One key thing he’s repeating is using a service layer to access data asynchronously.  His advice right now is to group data requests at the top of a user request, do them asynchronously, and then use the data in the rendering [...]

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Hello all:
Often when I post a question here I find someone ready to help, so here I go again.
I’ve got a Flex3 app that I’m trying to pass parameters to.  The docs say to either embed them as param tags in the HTML which calls the SWF file (as < param name=’flashVars’ value=’param1=X&param2=Y’ />) or [...]

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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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This is just a short one from Chicago, talking some about the upcoming interview with Patrick O’Keefe about his new book, Managing Online Forums.  I’ve got a copy to give away, as well as a copy of “Dreamweaver 8 - The Missing Manual”.  To enter in to the drawing for the book, send in a [...]

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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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Michael Arrington posted a fresh lament about the state of his inbox. He’s got 2400+ emails in his inbox right now, and he will likely nuke them all and start over (yet again) shortly. This got me to thinking (yet again!) about email/spam/inboxes. The article rightly pointed out that right now we [...]

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