I watched the movie Pollock, not to be confused with Potluck, and I came away with an interesting impression. In the movie Jackson Pollock, portrayed by the under-estimated Ed Harris, was a starving artist until he tried a new technique where he basically splatters paint onto a canvas. If I remember the reasoning behind it [...]
… and has been for a bit now. This year I get the distinct honor (???? ) of being in charge of the content for ZendCon. And for those who are wondering, no I’m not in charge of the date or the location. The primary responsibility I have, as being in charge of content is [...]
I started this series back in December. In fact I wrote 3 or 4 blog posts the day before I took two weeks of vacation. It’s now approaching the end of the next quarter so I figured I should actually make some progress on this. The last posting dealt with the concept of storage in [...]
I just read a blog post about integrating Zend Framework and WordPress and figured I’d add some commentary of my own, since I’ve done something similar. In my ESchrade plugin I use Zend_View to render some of my admin pages, though there is no reason why you couldn’t use it elsewhere, as long as the [...]
One of my little projects that I’ve been working on is an example where I wanted to build a system that would scale to be able selling 100k tickets in 5 minutes. I’m happy to say I’ve succeeded, but I am not able to prove it. It turns out that SOMEONE put a quota on [...]
One of the things I liked on my old blog was the ability to have a Popular Posts section that was based off of Google Analytics. I had also like that I was using pre-caching, i.e., a cache that does not expire but is, rather, overwritten. There are two benefits to this. 1) There is [...]
On Chris Shiflett’s blog he asks the question why we don’t blog more. For myself a lack of blogging usually means I’m working on code. I take what could be called the Pauline method of technology evangelism; meaning that the evangelism is almost secondary. It’s a continuation of what what I do. I love writing [...]
This weekend we soft launched the Zend Server 5.1 update. So soft, in fact, that I didn’t even know it was launched. But I did know it was coming. Most of the improvements were either bug fixes or performance improvements. Some of the performance improvements have actually been pretty significant, particularly under load. But we [...]
Another question for you. What do you for configuration management? Ini files? PHP Code? Yml? Do you have it as part of your deployment process? Hand-code in production? And, do you like your configuration management mechanism?
What do you spend your time on? What types of applications do you work on? I’m not so much curious about the frameworks you use, or your production environment. What you do, not what you use, is what I’m interested in. Do you build a blog, a CMS, an order entry system, a social media [...]