George's Blog

A little bit of everything

Pan's Labyrinth - (Found July 5, 2008 )

I know, I know. I've been away from the blog a long time. And yet, back, my first post is not about anything technical. It's not that interesting tech stuff isn't going on, it's just that almost all of my time is absorbed by work and putting the proprietary filter over things is more work than not. Pei and I went to see Pan's Labyrinth last night. It was a good movie, though it's hard for me to understand the 98 rating on Metacritic. It's good, but I don't think it was perfect. What the..
http://www.schlossnagle.org/~george/blog/index.php?/archives/262-Pans-Labyrinth.html

Looking for Bad-Ass PHP Developer - (Found July 5, 2008 )

Are you a bad-ass PHP developer Looking to work with some of the leaders in the PHP community at a stable and profitable company on exciting projects Look no further, because I'm is looking for you. We're looking for a senior-level web-dev with experience in Perl and PHP to come on and lead special projects here at OmniTI. The work is an interesting mix of both internal and external projects. A detailed description is in the extended entry. If you're interested, please send your resume..
http://www.schlossnagle.org/~george/blog/index.php?/archives/246-Looking-for-Bad-Ass-PHP-D...

Perl from PHP from Perl from ... - (Found July 5, 2008 )

This past summer we were contracted by David Wheeler to add a PHP 'burner' to the Perl-based CMS Bricolage. The goal was being able to write CMS templates in PHP and have them called from the Perl code. These templates in turn needed to be able to reach back up into their calling Perl interpreter and access datacall functions there. Continue reading "Perl from PHP from Perl from ..."
http://www.schlossnagle.org/~george/blog/index.php?/archives/247-Perl-from-PHP-from-Perl-f...

Ning-licious - (Found July 5, 2008 )

Last night, Marc Andreesen and Gina Bianchini's Ning proudly threw off it's sheet and made it's public debut. I'm extremely proud that OmniTI has been helping out over the past several months getting Ning off the ground. The project was flying in uber-stealth mode for quite a while, so it's exciting that people can now see it in its full colors. Ning is essentially an online service for building and deploying social networking applications. The goal is to make 'cloning' an application super.
http://www.schlossnagle.org/~george/blog/index.php?/archives/248-Ning-licious.html

Secret Agent Man - (Found July 5, 2008 )

I didn't know my predilections were considered secret. Secret Perl fan George Schlossnagle pointed out that Perl subroutines are objects, whereas PHP functions are not. However, he agreed that it would be 'swell' if PHP similarly didn't require 'wacky escaping inside the text for the function' even if this had to be achieved using the existing create_function() symbol table storage semantics. Thanks, Steph, for outing me!
http://www.schlossnagle.org/~george/blog/index.php?/archives/249-Secret-Agent-Man.html

Back From Zend Conference - (Found July 5, 2008 )

This entry was delayed a bit. The wifi on my powerbook had been dwindling for a while and finally kicked it while I was at the Zend conference in scenic Burlingame. My wayward child is now repaired and fully functional again. Yay! Overall the Zend conference was a good solid show. I was on a scalability panel (quote down at the bottom) run by Joyce and I gave a tutorial on building scalable applications with PHP. Both of those went very well and generated good feedback. Also, as a...
http://www.schlossnagle.org/~george/blog/index.php?/archives/250-Back-From-Zend-Conference...

Zend Conference Tutorial Slides - (Found July 5, 2008 )

Here is a quicktime movie (sorry no audio) of my Scalable Applications tutorial at the Zend Conference. If you don't do Quicktime, you can grab a pdf of them here.
http://www.schlossnagle.org/~george/blog/index.php?/archives/251-Zend-Conference-Tutorial-...

Alan Has In Fact Smoked Too Much PHP - (Found July 5, 2008 )

The crufty but usually sound Alan Knowles seems to have gone completely crazy: While PHP4's object model may be regarded as a pain, defaulting to cloning objects is actually rather handy in 9 out of 10 situations. WTF Cloning objects by default is almost never handy and super-unintuitive. Not only is it the standard semantic in basically every language, but looking through all the PHP5 code I maintain, I see one instance of __clone() in all of it. Here's a test: $a = new Foo(); How...
http://www.schlossnagle.org/~george/blog/index.php?/archives/252-Alan-Has-In-Fact-Smoked-T...

QATest Engineer Sought - (Found July 5, 2008 )

I'm looking for a senior-level test engineer to head up QA and testing for our Ecelerity MTA product. Full job req is up here. Really just looking for someone with professional server-software testing experience and a deep passion for testingbreaking things. Our testing framework is built on Perl's Test::More and modeled after Apache::Test, so if you think either of those is the shiznit, that's a big plus in your favor.
http://www.schlossnagle.org/~george/blog/index.php?/archives/253-QATest-Engineer-Sought.ht...

Singapore or Taipei PHP User Groups - (Found July 5, 2008 )

Pei, Christopher and I will be in Singapore January 12-15 and Taipei January 17-24. If there are active PHP user groups in either of those places that would like a drop-in during either of those time windows, please send me a note; I'd be happy to show up either just to say hi or talk about any topic.
http://www.schlossnagle.org/~george/blog/index.php?/archives/254-Singapore-or-Taipei-PHP-U...