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  php|tek conference

  11.29.05 | Permalink | Comments Off

  I’m an avid reader of php|architect magazine and had a blast when attending their conference back in September here in Toronto. Well, they’ve announced their next conference, php|tek, which will be taking place in Orlando at the end of April.
  I decided to submit a proposal to give a talk called "Scaling for n00bs", where [...]

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  Sometimes It’s Better To Give In

  11.29.05 | Permalink | Comments Off

  Recently I switched my other blog over to using the Typo blog engine instead of the one I had written myself. It’s written in Rails as well, so I will be able to go into it and hack around. First task is to add some captcha stuff to the comments.
  I don’t [...]

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  If It Walks Like A Duck…

  11.18.05 | Permalink | Comments Off

  I recently got my copy of the Pick Axe, properly known "Progamming Ruby, 2nd Edition" and have been reading through it on the train ride to and from work mostly. One of the more interesting chapters is called "Duck Typing". It was referred to this because Ruby (and PHP to some extent) just [...]

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  Movin’ On

  11.16.05 | Permalink | Comments Off

  Today has been a bittersweet day. I handed in my resignation at my current employer and are moving on to work at VerticalScope. I’ve been working in the same place for almost 4 years, which is a long time for working in the internet biz.
  Things have started to feel stale here, and I [...]

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  Been Quiet

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  Things have been slow…baby has been very fussy at night so I’m lacking the energy to post lately. However, I have been thinking about my latest programming challenge. At work, it’s unit tests. Which I’m a fan of because it lets me prove that the stuff I just wrote isn’t horribly broken.
  I [...]

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