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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 [...]

• 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 tinker and tweak my [...]

• 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 the server [...]

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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 tougher questions) but [...]

• 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 [...]

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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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