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Learning lessons from the PHP transition

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My last article about Matt Mullenweg and his attack on the PHP development team raised a few further issues which I wanted to briefly discuss. Stuart (blog.stut.net) had some very interesting points to make that not quite supported Matt [...]

24Jul2007 | Nick Halstead | 5 comments | Continued

Developer Links for 08/07/2007

Impressions of Ruby on Rails from an ex J2EE developer
A few Ruby/Rails related links (its been quiet on the PHP front), this first one really interested me to see how a experienced J2EE programmer would make the transition over to Rails.
Rails developers: experts or script kiddies?
Continuing with Rails we then have a bit of linkbait [...]

8Jul2007 | Nick Halstead | 0 comments | Continued

Return trip hell

I got home at 2am last night. I left the Zend conference at 9pm but found that there had been some form of fatality on the railway and that all trains had been cancelled and the station authorities were keeping tight lipped about what was going on and when we could expect trains to run [...]

3Jul2007 | Nick Halstead | 1 comment | Continued

The Good and Bad of technical support

I recently had two very contrasting experiences with technical support from two very different companies.
RSYNC.NET

You have got to love those guys over at rsync.net & johncompanies. They recently sent me an email notifying me that they had added subversion support to their geo-redundant backup facilities. I wanted to see if I could get things up [...]

1Jun2007 | Nick Halstead | 0 comments | Continued

Favorite.me one month (and it’s all over)

It has been exactly one month since I launched favorite.me and I have had 107 users and over 2000 favorites given out since it started. Because favorite exchanges have fallen out of favor I have decided to close down the site. I will for at least 2 months leave the front page which I have [...]

27May2007 | Nick Halstead | 3 comments | Continued

It’s official ‘I am a supreme nerd god’

I was reading Bill Roth’s Blog and it mentioned that he was competing with a friend over getting the best Nerd score on NerdTests.com. Although he was sceptical on what score he could get being a manager he managed a very respectable 95%.
So being a nerd at heart I thought I would try it [...]

25May2007 | Nick Halstead | 1 comment | Continued
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