Archive for 2007
December 13th, 2007 by Rich Zygler
tags: Application Design, Google, Google API, LAMP, PHP, REST, Web Services | 2 Comments »
I'd love to give ws02 a fair shake because they have an open source business model. They have a web services framework for PHP which seems interesting from an academic standpoint. But I think WS-* web services are WAY too complicated when compared to REST.
Just look at this ...
November 14th, 2007 by Rich Zygler
tags: Firefox, Gmail, Google | 2 Comments »
It's mostly when clicking different folders like "spam." I wasn't sure what was going as this just started happening the past 3 days when I noticed that sure enough, I've been moved over to Gmail 2.0. I tried disabling and then finally uninstalling all my add-ons (plugins) ...
October 31st, 2007 by Rich Zygler
tags: PHP, Python, jabber, twitter | 5 Comments »
Does anyone know of an open source twitter clone? Preferably in PHP or Python. Not a client mind you, but the server guts of receiving IMs and doing something with them, enabling followers, public viewing, etc. I want to implement this on an intranet inside a corp network and obviously ...
October 25th, 2007 by Rich Zygler
tags: .NET, Facebook, Microsoft, PHP | 15 Comments »
Microsoft is buying a piece of Facebook. What do we all think this means for PHP since Facebook is one of the "web 2.0" leaders built on PHP? The way I see it, here are the options:
Facebook continues on its merry path, taking only funding from Microsoft
Facebook ...
October 10th, 2007 by Rich Zygler
tags: PHP, Zend IDE | 2 Comments »
As my part time job (for no pay) is spent being a shill for Zend, I thought I'd mention that the new Zend Studio for Eclipse Beta is out and ready to be test driven. I've got a few deadlines both professional and personal to take care of over ...
August 31st, 2007 by Rich Zygler
tags: Security | No Comments »
Following is a notice monster.com sent out late last night with the subject "An Important Message to Our Valued Monster Customers" regarding their recent data loss to hackers. Interestingly, they never actually apologize for the incident. Bold is mine.
Dear Valued Monster Customer,
Protecting the job seekers who use our website is ...
August 23rd, 2007 by Rich Zygler
tags: Ideas, Knowledge Management | 2 Comments »
I don't like to email anymore. Especially at work. I have some issues with instant messaging too.
Ideas get lost. So do instructions and documentation. Sure, you can make a nice document and put it out there on your internal corporate network, but no one will ever look ...
August 22nd, 2007 by Rich Zygler
tags: Google, Maps | No Comments »
Posted on the google maps blog today is a post about the newly released embeddable maps. Pretty cool. Although the map is in an iframe and not javascript and div like using the Maps API. So for manipulating the map on the page, you’ll still need to ...
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