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SCP for Komodo IDE

I have just finished developing my first Komodo IDE plugin. I love Komodo. It’s the first IDE for PHP that I’ve been very, very happy using. I’ve run it on Windows, Linux and now on a MacBook. The only frustration I’ve had is that Komodo doesn’t support basic integrated file uploading via SCP. While it [...]

Read the full article → August 17, 2009

Doing more at once

I’ve been doing a lot of work with curl_multi in PHP lately because it just makes sense to do as much work in parallel as possible (in most cases). I’ll be writing up my experiences with curl_multi later.
So, yesterday’s announcement by the Facebook development team about fql.multiquery couldn’t have come at a better time for [...]

Read the full article → June 17, 2009

How will it end?

Jeff Atwood over at Coding Horror just posted a great article about the life and death of Word Perfect, a piece of software that touched the lives of just about every person who was old enough to type during its run. Jeff provides a link to a great e-book, Almost Perfect — a first-person account [...]

Read the full article → April 6, 2009

Blog vs. traditional web site

Here’s a question I’ve been asked many times: should I build a web site for my business or should I use a blog? The answer is yes.
For a while, I suppose, there was a reason to make a distinction between a traditional web site and a blog. Those distinctions might be in how the [...]

Read the full article → March 9, 2009