Docker and Vagrant Development on OS X Yosemite
Vagrant Vagrant is an amazing tool for managing virtual machines via a simple to use command line interface. Install Vagrant uses Virtualbox to manage the virtual dependencies by default. (You can...
View ArticlePHP Next Generation
The PHP Group has put up a post about the future of PHP. They say, ‘Over the last year, some research into the possibility of introducing JIT compilation capabilities to PHP has been conducted. During...
View ArticleGet Ready For a Streaming Music Die-Off
Streaming services are ailing. Pandora, the giant of its class and the survivor at 13 years old, is waging an ugly war to pay artists and labels less in order to stay afloat. Spotify, in spite of 6...
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How the Bitcoin protocol actually works
Many thousands of articles have been written purporting to explain Bitcoin, the online, peer-to-peer currency. Most of those articles give a hand-wavy account of the underlying cryptographic protocol,...
View ArticleTemporarily Disable Puppet
This is can be done by an admin disabled of Puppet # puppet agent --disable "Reason why disabled" To make sure it’s disable, just do a Puppet run; # puppet agent -t Notice: Skipping run of Puppet...
View ArticleMaven — Making both a War and Jar at the same time
Maven nicely automates building WAR files, but it places your compiled classes in WEB-INF/classes instead of making a new jar in /WEB-INF/lib. If you want your code to be compiled as a .jar as well as...
View ArticleGetting Started With Hadoop Using Hortonworks Sandbox
Getting started with a distributed system like Hadoop can be a daunting task for developers. From installing and configuring Hadoop to learning the basics of MapReduce and other add-on tools, the...
View ArticleMonitoring Gearman over Telnet port 4730
So, the only way to monitor the Gearman daemon is via telnet to port 4730. The current monitoring supported commands are really fairly basic. I could not locate any documentation on the support...
View ArticleJoin the PHP Evangelism Team
As, fellow members of the PHP Development Team we are all called to be developer evangelists to the PHP Community. So, what is our cause, our reason for being… how are we trying to change the “Web 2.0″...
View Articlehoity-toity a.k.a. hotty toddy – now who is playing the fool with the Valley...
So, for what it is worth, “Hotty Toddy” is simply the best damned fight song in the history of college sports; it can be heard at any Ole Miss football game. I’m the geeky (and damn, I am a geek!) left...
View ArticleLast day at Schematic
Today was my last day working for Schematic as an employee. I look forward to a new day… with a new set of challenges. To everyone at Schematic; I wish you the best and appreciate the opportunities...
View ArticleCongratulations! I have been accepted as a presenter…
I have been accepted as a presenter for the O’Reilly Open Source Convention 2007 at the Oregon Convention Center, July 23, 2007 – July 27, 2007. The following has been accepted as a session for the...
View ArticleZend Framework Project Teams Need You
Most components and subprojects need volunteers to help with documentation, unit test coverage, code reviews, improving integration with other ZF components, and enhancing architecture and design for...
View ArticleWhy PHP?
So, yesterday after reading Ben Ramsey’s post, “Business Case for PHP” I decided to join Stuart Herbert ’s Google Group for developing a business case for PHP. I am very interested in the outcome of...
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March To Be Month of PHP Bugs (Bring It On)
During Stefan Esser’s interview with SecurityFocus he announced the upcoming Month of PHP bugs initiative in March. Quoting: “The Month of PHP bugs will take place in March 2007. Its goal is to make...
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OSCON 2007 Call for Papers
So, I submitted my 90 minute conference session proposal entitled, ” Improving Performance by Profiling PHP Applications”. I think I am going to focus on Advanced PHP Debugger (APD) for this session....
View ArticleZend Framework Preview 0.7.0
Zend Framework is a simple, straightforward, open-source software framework for PHP 5 designed to eliminate the tedious details of coding and let you focus on the big picture. Its strength is in its...
View ArticleRecentChangesCamp 2007
Well, I went to the Recent Changes Camp 2007 this past weekend here in Portland, Oregon and I must say it was interesting. I enjoyed listening to the identity lady and her session about OpenID. It was...
View ArticleMy New Gig
How come I’m not blogging lately? Typical reasons, ranging from lots of travel, to project work. But there is one reason that might stand out: I’m starting with a new company. I have accepted the...
View ArticleCongratulations Andrei
Congratulations, to Andrei and the rest of the PHP team for reaching the milestone of converting 50% of the 3084 functions that are bundled with PHP 6 to now support Unicode.
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