October 2009

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• Chris' Brain

  RIP – Quenton 08/21/98 to 10/28/09

  10.28.09 | Permalink | Comments Off

  I had to say goodbye today to an old and dear friend.

  This morning at 6:45AM my wife went downstairs to give our two cats their morning treats. We could not find our oldest cat Quenton. My wife went into the basement to see if he was down there and found him laying in [...]

• Chris' Brain

  New Site for “Refactoring Legacy Applications using CakePHP”

  10.27.09 | Permalink | Comments Off

  While looking around for conferences to speak at that were within a decent drive of my home, I managed to come into contact with Jason Gilmore, who also sells PHP books via EasyPHPWebsites. He saw that I had written this book and offered to put it up for sale via his site. As [...]

• Chris' Brain

  Building Rallyhat: Out of the cloud and onto a slice

  10.23.09 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  The fall and winter are really the time of year when I can sink my virtual teeth into side projects. During the summer I’m too busy playing softball or games in my simulation baseball league, so now that both seasons are done or winding down I can take a look at a side project [...]

• Chris' Brain

  Solutions Looking For A Problem

  10.09.09 | Permalink | 4 Comments

  (Personal note: wow, 2 weeks since I blogged something. Can you tell I’ve been in refactoring mode, not writing new code for work projects and finishing off my simball league season. (Go MAD!))

  The intertubes have been all clogged-up with news about Google opening up limited access to Google Wave, and I am not too [...]

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Facebook should've be written in unicornSchemaLang, because everyone *knows* that PHP is no good for anything, right?

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