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  Opinionated Software, The Podcast

  07.17.07 | Permalink | Comments Off

  A while back I was contacted by Cal Evans over at the Zend Developer Zone to contribute to a new podcast he was starting up called PHP Abstract. Very cool idea, a small 5 to 7 minute podcast by PHP developers where they talk about a topic of interest to them (and hoepfully to [...]

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  Live from php|tek!

  05.17.07 | Permalink | 5 Comments

  Just finished giving my talk at php|tek 2007, and feedback was good. Still talked a little too fast, but I think I can conquer that problem. Anyhow, I totally forgot to record the talk as a screencast (the speaker before me talked all the way through my prep time) so all I can [...]

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  Off To php|tek

  05.15.07 | Permalink | Comments Off

  I fly out to Chicago tomorrow morning for php|tek where I’ll be giving my talk “What Can PHP Learn From Ruby On Rails” on Thursday. The talk is significantly different from the one I gave in Vancouver back in February (with colour and graphics even!) as I’ve cut down the number of slides so [...]

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  What’s In Chris’ Brain, April 2007 Edition

  04.17.07 | Permalink | 3 Comments

  Here are some of the things bouncing around in my head this month:

  Following my “just build it, damnit!” mantra, I finally got the new web site for my simulation baseball league launched. It’s not 100% the way I want it layout-wise, but I can tweak that going forward. It at least has all [...]

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  Ruthless Refactoring and Other Activities

  12.19.06 | Permalink | Comments Off

  As I finally wrestle down my Sportsticker parser and scoreboard system into submission, I spent some time going through my code and applying the DRY (Don’t Repeat Yourself) wherever I can. So, I’ve moved some functionality into a support library and are slowly replacing old code with calls to new functions I’ve created. [...]

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