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• Chris' Brain

  What’s In Chris’ Brain – Blog Experiment Version

  11.26.09 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  I had a few drinks last night with my fellow Milton-area PHP developer and we got to talking about a lot of different topics. I will summarize a few of them here:

  Concurrency is still drawing significant interest from me

  I recommended my friend check out Tim Bray’s Concur.next series (yes, I know I’m whipping this [...]

• Chris' Brain

  Cleaning Up The Dev Environment

  11.20.09 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  Once I got a production push out of the way at work, I set about recreating my PHP development environment. Currently I was running PHP 5.3.0 with Apache2 and Postgresql 8.4, all installed via MacPorts. Why the time for a change? Two reasons. The first one is my desire to constantly [...]

• Chris' Brain

  Using Django As An Admin Area for a PHP Project, Part 1

  11.18.09 | Permalink | Comments Off

  My work project needed an admin area for doing things like changing the key for a league, or changing the email address for someone's account. You know, typical admin stuff. In the past I had been *gasp* editing SQL by hand via pgAdmin (and my favourite trick of creating an SSH tunnel to [...]

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  Why I Love Stack Overflow

  11.03.09 | Permalink | 2 Comments

  One of the sites I find myself visiting more and more often is Stack Overflow. The idea is so simple: create a web site where people can ask questions and then allow other users to answer them. Stack Overflow has spawned some other sites (most notably Server Fault, which helps sysadmins answer [...]

• CakePHP

  The Devil’s In The Details (or, Handling Sequences in Postgres in CakePHP)

  02.02.08 | Permalink | Comments Off

  I had been struggling with some weirdness that CakePHP has been displaying while trying to add some new features to the baseball league website, where Cake + PHP 4.4 + Postgres were deciding to just be sulky and not work together well.

  So, I was trying to figure out how to make a test for this [...]

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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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