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What Thrashed Around In Chris’ Brain This Past Weekend
11.23.09 | Permalink | Comments Off

(The blog experiment continues: 1 post every weekday in November and I think I only skipped one, but made up for it with a Saturday post)

Node.js is something I want to use, but I do not know what for
For those who don’t know, Node is a “toolkit for writing extremely high performance non-blocking event driven [...]
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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 [...]
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A Simple CouchDB Datasource
06.05.09 | Permalink | 2 Comments

Yes, my waffling continues. But this time it is NOT with respect to what editor to use, as the one true editor has been configured in such a way to make my life easier. I have a personal project that I have been waffling about building in Python (first as a Django app, [...]
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Book Now Available On Amazon!
05.26.09 | Permalink | 1 Comment

I received an email this evening that you can now purchase my book through Amazon.com's Marketplace! Awesome news. Check out the link http://tinyurl.com/p5o79u and be sure to add your feedback to the page if you've bought a copy.
(Edit: hrm, link doesn't show up on front page but shows up if you click on the [...]
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Laziness vs. Efficiency
05.21.09 | Permalink | 8 Comments

Joel Moss (a fellow member of the CakePHP community) has been acting like a bit of a Rails (and Ruby) fanboi as of late. He's doing a series of blog posts proclaiming his love for Ruby. Personally, I loved Rails when I first encountered it. Played around with it. Wrote a [...]