Living in the Prove It Culture
Engineering cultures differ from shop to shop. I have been in the same culture for 13 years so I am not an expert on what all the different types are. Before that I was living in Dilbert world. The cu...
/dev/hell Podcast Episode #5
I was privileged to be invited to be a part of the /dev/hell podcast this week. Thanks to Chris and Ed for having me on. Check it out. And subscribe to their podcast....
Errors when adding/subtracing dates using seconds
This just came up today again for me. I have said it before, but even I get lazy and forget. When doing math with dates such as adding days it is really quick to think this works: <?php $date =...
Google is breaking the Web
So, Google announced today that they would start doing a couple of new things. First, they are going to start sending all logged in users to their SSL enabled search page. Secondly, they claimed they ...
Lightbox using YUI
I made this a while back but have not blogged about it. I needed a lightbox for a project. So, I looked around. Like usual, none of them were right for me. In addition to that, I am not on the jQuery ...
Check for a TTY or interactive terminal in PHP
Many UNIX tools do different things if they are connected to an interactive terminal, also called a TTY. This can be handy for lots of reasons. I had a use case today that prompted me to find out how ...
Talking about Gearman at Etsy Labs
I find myself flying to New York on Monday for some dealnews related business. Anytime I travel I try and find something fun to do at night. (Watching a movie by myself in Provo, Utah was kinda not th...
Taking a personal day
I mostly talk about geeky stuff on this blog, but sometimes I like to get a little more personal. Today is one of those days.Like this post, I took my public speaking to a personal place this month. A...
PHP Frameworks
Last week I spoke at and attended the first ever PHP Community Conference. It was very good. It was also very different from my normal conference. I usually go for very technical stuff. I don't often ...
HTML5 Experiment
I was looking through dealnews.com browser stats the other day to see how many of our visitors had browsers that could use CSS3. This was how it broke down. 58% of dealnews visitors have browsers...