According to IT experts from five years ago PHP wasn't ready for the Enterprise. While Microsoft and Java developers were vaguely familiar with the PHP acronym, IT managers were still in the dark. PHP developers have always had to deal with what PHP couldn't do. PHP couldn't possibly run real business...
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The Problem with PHP is PHP Itself
Office Reports in PHP
Every so often you get posed with a problem needing a quick fix. This was the case in a project we did for the Iowa Department of Agriculture and Land Stewardship when they needed us to produce Office-based reports...you know, spreadsheets, word documents, etc using PHP. Some of you Windows users...
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Yahoo! Mail Quietly Out of Beta
The new stylish Yahoo! Mail interface appears to be out of beta. This morning I noticed a few subtle changes like new icons, different colors and the missing "Beta" tag in the header. For those that don't know this Yahoo! mail interface does a great job to give a desktop quality...
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The Value of a Good Developer
In every interview I've ever given for software development jobs I've made it clear that the value of a good developer isn't that they know Java, PHP, . Their value is learning the business and being a whiz with technology...even if they don't know all the technologies used on a project....
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Oh So Familiar Problem with Zend Studio Neon (Eclipse-based)
Had I read the blog entry closer it would have noticed this problem is apparently a SUN JRE bug, not an issue with the installer. Thanks to those who have pointed this out.
I'm running openSUSE 10.3 and ran into a familiar problem when trying to install Zend Studio Neon....
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openSUSE 10.3 and Mac-formated iPod
I'm a big fan of having my gadgets just work...something that has often stood in stark contrast with my love for Linux. In openSUSE 10.2 my Photo iPod simply didn't work. dmesg would show it was identified but it could never mount the stupid thing at /media/ipod. Sure it's Linux and...
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openSUSE 10.3 and Inte PRO/Wireless
Ok, so I finally managed to get the onboard wireless card in my HP laptop working under openSUSE 10.3. The long and short of it is that the card works fine which is quite obvious since 10.2 supported it with no real fights (i.e. no need for ndiswrapper). However, the problems seems...
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Problems Using Zend Studio after Upgrade to openSUSE 10.3
Well, upgrading from openSUSE 10.2 to 10.3 has been a bit brutal. OS Upgrades in Linux are still a far cry from passing the Grandma Test. In the end I found that basically having the installer remove any packages if found conflicts for was the best path. That path...
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GSoC: Cleaning The Backside of Open Source
I began writing this from a conference room buried within the Google Campus in Mountain View, CA at the Google Summer of Code Mentor Summit. I recall being relaxed as I look out into the courtyard at Google where Stan, a T-Rex skeleton, stands motionless yet...
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Fed Up of Framework Hype
I was at a local PHP User Group meeting last night and there was a fantastic discussion around frameworks. I'd been inclined to go to this meeting because it is a topic I'm intimately familiar with. However, by the time the meeting was over I'm not sure the real value of...
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