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Yearly Archives: 2010
Dear Oracle, Get a Clue
• October 25, 2010 • Community • No comments
From JavaLobby: The basic problem is that people don’t trust you and you aren’t very good at community building; in fact you are pretty bad at community marketing. I really really want you to succeed and community marketing is not that hard. The first step is to read this really cool book called ‘The Cluetrain Manifesto’. [...]
CloudFusion has become the official AWS SDK for PHP!
• September 28, 2010 • Projects • No comments
It’s always been a dream of mine to get paid to work on something I love. I spent more than 5 years working on SimplePie, and although it gained hundreds of thousands of users all over the world, it never gave anything back to me. It was a labor of love, and I did it [...]
PHP Coding Standards
• July 30, 2010 • Code, Writing • No comments
For the past several years, I’ve been developing a coding style for PHP that all began with SimplePie. Since then, I’ve been polishing the standards from one project to the next to the point where I believe that I have a solid, rational set of guidelines that others can share and re-use. Any feedback that [...]
Movie Review: The Last Airbender
• July 5, 2010 • TV and Movies • 1 comments
The Last Airbender is an abomination to film making. It makes Matrix Revolutions look like The Godfather. Don’t go see it, tell your friends not to see it — don’t even wait until it comes out on DVD. Don’t waste a moment of your life on this film; you’ll thank me later. I love Avatar [...]
The Great Buzz Cut of 2010
• June 29, 2010 • Family Life • No comments
When I got home this evening, I set down my backpack and began catching up on the day’s events with my family. Generally it’s a story of errands and the like, but then Matthew started telling me about how he wanted to look nice this evening. He was telling me about how he’d selected a [...]
The Boy™ turns 5!
• June 16, 2010 • Family Life • 1 comments
In September 2004, my wife came in from the bathroom and announced to all of us sitting in the living room that she was pregnant. Fast-forward to today, and my son is turning 5 years old. It’s been a wild 5 years so far, and he’ll probably even live another 5 years before I kill [...]
Dog Vomit
• May 29, 2010 • Family Life • 1 comments
“Daddy, daddy! Jack is throwing up!” Jack is our dog — a 10 pound terrier-chihuahua not much bigger than a cat, that we named Jack Bauer for the sake of amusement. I sighed, paused my game of Call of Duty, and went to find the dog. Generally, dog vomit involves wiping it up with a [...]
Observations of a 4-year-old
• May 23, 2010 • Family Life • 1 comments
My son’s observations on the life of a 4-year-old is a constant stream of humorous material.
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