Archive for February, 2008

Looking for Mac software

Published at February 22, 2008 in and . 3 Comments

OK mac lovers, I’m due to get a new MacBook Pro next week and I’m looking for a list of must have software. I already know I’m going to get TextMate for some dev work, but what about a good noob video package, music, etc.?

Hadoop gets major supporter

Published at February 20, 2008 in and . 0 Comments

It seems that Yahoo! is getting into the Map/Reduce wagon that Google made so famous. However Yahoo! is using the Apache version known as Hadoop. Seems their new Java based system is some 34% faster than their previous version. Very nice! While Yahoo! isn’t quite using the same amount of data, 300TB compressed is nothing to sneeze at.

What would be really interesting is say that Microsoft does end up buying Yahoo!. It is well known that Microsoft wants Yahoo! because of it’s search market. So would Microsoft stand to own a search engine that is based on an open source Java technology?

I have to admit, I’m starting to like PHP

Published at February 14, 2008 in . 0 Comments

I’ve been a diehard Java guy since servlets first hit the scene. I’ve worked with just about every framework, or at least researched it, built all kinds of fun and not so fun applications. In short, I really like working in Java. I’ve dabbled in PHP, but mostly just modifying a wordpress plugin, or creating some simple trivial thing. Until recently.

I bought a PHP package that is used to build eBay affiliate stores. It worked OK. Then I took a look at the code and I really see why most software developers put down PHP. It isn’t quite so much the language, but the vast majority of apps out there are garbage code wise. So I decided to build my own and I decided on CodeIgnitor for my framework.

Well, through this experience I’ve learned that PHP isn’t so bad. There are some features that I actually like and I plan on building some more sites with it.

So, now can we all say it together?

PHP isn’t bad, really!

No? Oh well, one step at a time yea? :-)

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    • Oh the irony

    Published at February 5, 2008 in and . 2 Comments

    So I’m working on a PHP app for building eBay affiliate stores. Been a pretty good experience really as this is my first full PHP app and not just messing with a wordpress plugin or other such trivial thing.

    Anyway, I go to package it up for download for beta testing and found myself copying over the file into a temp directory so I can then remove the directories that weren’t mean for distribution. It dawned on me that a perfect solution for this was Ant. So I whipped up an ant build file with a couple lines in it that just zips up the required directories and presto, I’m done.

    Who would have thought I would use a Java app to package up a PHP app?

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