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Thursday, March 13th, 2008Kiwi Foo Camp
Monday, February 18th, 2008My sunburned feet have healed, so that means it's time to recap my trip to New Zealand for the second annual Kiwi Foo Camp. My trip started in Auckland Friday morning, where I met David Slack (a fellow Foo), who was kind enough to give me a ride to ...
CIO Magazine Trolls for Publicity
Friday, February 8th, 2008All publicity is good publicity, right? I'm not so sure. Last week, CIO Magazine published an article on the advantages and disadvantages of the PHP programming language that can only be described as a blunder. With a target audience of C-level techni...
Security and User Experience
Tuesday, January 29th, 2008A post entitled SmugMug's Private Pics Are Public caught my eye yesterday. The news doesn't sound too surprising, since these types of security problems aren't at all uncommon, but Don (SmugMug's CEO) is a friend of mine, and I know he takes security v...
2007 Highlights
Monday, January 7th, 2008Posting highlights of the previous year has become a blogging cliché, but this is my 5th consecutive year doing so, and it's a tradition I hope to keep. It gives me a nice record of the previous year as well as a chance to make my plans for the upcomi...
PHP Advent Calendar 2007
Tuesday, December 25th, 2007Thanks very much to everyone who participated in this year's PHP Advent Calendar. The entire calendar is available at the following URL: http://shiflett.org/blog/2007/dec For reference, the complete list of entries is below. (See also Chris Cornutt's...
PHP Advent Calendar Day 24
Tuesday, December 25th, 2007Today's entry is provided by Nate Abele. Name Nate Abele Blog cake.insertdesignhere.com Biography Nate Abele of OmniTI has been a ...
PHP Advent Calendar Day 23
Monday, December 24th, 2007Today's entry is provided by Jay Pipes. Name Jay Pipes Blog jpipes.com Biography Jay Pipes is the North American Community ...
PHP Advent Calendar Day 22
Sunday, December 23rd, 2007Today's entry is provided by Derick Rethans. Today also happens to be Derick's birthday, so I hope you'll join me in wishing him a very happy birthday. (Because I'm a little late posting this, and Derick lives in Norway, I'm afraid this is a belated bi...
PHP Advent Calendar Day 21
Saturday, December 22nd, 2007Today's entry, provided by Luke Welling, is entitled Following the Big Dogs on Web Application Security. Name Luke Welling Blog lukewelling.com Biography ...
PHP Advent Calendar Day 20
Thursday, December 20th, 2007Today's entry, provided by Adam Trachtenberg, is entitled User-Defined Functions in SQLite. Name Adam Trachtenberg Blog trachtenberg.com Biography Adam Trachtenberg ...
PHP Advent Calendar Day 19
Wednesday, December 19th, 2007Today's entry is provided by Marcus Börger. Name Marcus Börger Blog marcus-boerger.de Biography Marcus Börger is a specialist in C, ...
PHP Advent Calendar Day 18
Tuesday, December 18th, 2007Today's entry, provided by Christian Wenz, is entitled WSDL Despite PHP 5. Name Christian Wenz Blog hauser-wenz.de/blog/ Biography Christian Wenz got hooked on PHP when he introduced it to one of the largest web sites back i...
PHP Advent Calendar Day 17
Monday, December 17th, 2007Today's entry is provided by Ilia Alshanetsky. Name Ilia Alshanetsky Blog ilia.ws Biography Ilia Alshanetsky is an active member of the PHP development team and is the current release manager for PHP 5.2. Ilia is also the pr...
PHP Advent Calendar Day 16
Monday, December 17th, 2007Today's entry, provided by Jeff Moore, is entitled What We Can Learn about Software Development from a Failing Restaurant. Name Jeff Moore Blog procata.com/blog/ Biography Jeff Moore is a columnist for php|architect who has ...
PHP Advent Calendar Day 15
Saturday, December 15th, 2007Today's entry, provided by Paul Reinheimer, is entitled Channels and Output. Name Paul Reinheimer Blog blog.preinheimer.com Biography Born in Vancouver, ...
PHP Advent Calendar Day 14
Friday, December 14th, 2007Today's entry, provided by David Sklar, is entitled Timing and Profiling. Name David Sklar Blog sklar.com/blog/ Biography David Sklar is ...
PHP Advent Calendar Day 13
Thursday, December 13th, 2007Today's entry, provided by Terry Chay, is entitled Filter Input; Escape Output: Security Principles and Practice. Name Terry Chay Blog terrychay.com/blog/ Biography ...
PHP Advent Calendar Day 12
Wednesday, December 12th, 2007Today's entry is provided by Ed Finkler. Name Ed Finkler Blog funkatron.com Biography Ed Finkler is the Web and Security ...
PHP Advent Calendar Day 11
Tuesday, December 11th, 2007Today's entry is provided by Ben Ramsey. Name Ben Ramsey Blog benramsey.com Biography Ben Ramsey is a software architect at ...
PHP Advent Calendar Day 10
Monday, December 10th, 2007Today's entry is provided by Chris Cornutt. Name Chris Cornutt Blog blog.phpdeveloper.org Biography Chris Cornutt is the senior editor of ...
PHP Advent Calendar Day 9
Sunday, December 9th, 2007Today's entry, provided by Ivo Jansch, is entitled Design Patterns. Name Ivo Jansch Blog jansch.nl Biography Ivo Jansch is CTO ...
PHP Advent Calendar Day 8
Saturday, December 8th, 2007Today's entry, provided by Matthew Weier O'Phinney, is entitled Don't Reinvent the Wheel. Name Matthew Weier O'Phinney Blog weierophinney.net/matthew/ Biography ...
PHP Advent Calendar Day 7
Friday, December 7th, 2007Today's entry, provided by Elizabeth Smith, is entitled SPL to the Rescue. Name Elizabeth Smith Blog elizabethmariesmith.com Biography Elizabeth ...
